Free the Corporation

Corporate Persons Semantics Outside the Box Slavery Back to the Cases Other Rights Corporations As Slaves Absurd More Absurd Best Apocalypse Ever You know, I never thought that I’d have an opportunity to write about this, even though I have had it in the back of my mind since 2014. Recently, a Delaware court upheld the right of corporations to vote © in some small town’s local elections. Delaware, for those of you not familiar, has lax laws on corporate behavior—particularly disclosing owners—and no state tax, making it the corporate headquarters for the vast majority of American businesses, especially of the sort created by someone trying to get away with something1. I actually started thinking about these issues in 2014, when Burwell v. Hobby Lobby Stores, Inc allowed for the idea that a corporation could have a strongly held religious belief, but the idea of corporations-as-people also features in Citizens United v. FEC upholding the Free Expression rights (in the form of spending…