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That’s pre-21st century though.

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It’s a bad enough idea we don’t need anymore for the next few centuries.

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According to someone else in here, it was 19th, and that sounds right to me. I’m guessing early 19th.

It’s just a neat, tidy legal fiction for some purposes.

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it was 2010

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Negative. Corporate personhood predates Citizens United v. FCC (which is what I assume you’re referring to). IMO: The ruling itself still counts as an answer to the original question though!

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