[This guest post is by Benjamin Lusty, an attorney and an occasional contributor to Publius Online. The opinions are his own.] ______________________________________________________________ Among the flotsam and jetsam of misguided political ideas and non sequiturs that washed ashore on the nation’s consciousness after the wreck of Occupy Wall Street is the previously obscure movement to end corporate […]
State Falling Apart? Repeal the First Amendment!
February 23, 2011 by
State Falling Apart? Repeal the First Amendment! Senate Joint Memorial 8007 [in the Washington state legislature] requests Congress to pass an amendment declaring that corporations are not persons so that their speech can be restricted.The reason, according to the Memorialists, is that corporations cannot vote and therefore should not be protected by the First Amendment. But […]
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