Looking for positives, but especially negatives. What are the pitfalls of not granting corporations the same rights as people/citizens?
I can’t even imagine the clusterfuck. This is baked into the very first words of our law.
1 U.S. Code § 1 - Words denoting number, gender, and so forth
the words “person” and “whoever” include corporations, companies, associations, firms, partnerships, societies, and joint stock companies, as well as individuals;
The Citizens United ruling needs pulled, that’s all.
the radically different society that would be in place already for such an amendment to be ratified
You guys are so screwed, I am sorry for you, sincerely
Many different kinds of organizations are organized as corporations. Charities, newspapers, churches, etc. If the amendment was not carefully written, it could be construed to deny important rights, such as press freedom or religious freedom, to organizations that really ought to be protected. Similarly, the protections against unwarranted search and seizure or taking of property for pubic use without compensation should probably continue to cover corporations.
Really, the only problem I see WRT corporations having constitutional rights is the decision that political spending is protected speech. The other constitutional rights are generally not problematic.
So maybe something like this:
No person, whether natural born human or legal fiction, shall spend, donate, or otherwise make valuable contributions to any candidate or campaign, if said person is not entitled to vote in the election for such candidate or campaign.
Only natural born human beings shall be entitled to vote in any election.
Calling a constitutional convention right now would be insane. Republicans would take that process and fuck is up forever while pulling up the ladder behind them
Yeah…
Because right now republicans are showing restraint and not doing everything they can think of…
Surely the only reason they don’t do is because their sense of fair play…