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Abolish Person-Hood for Corporations

There is a group Lobbying for CEOs to be able to vote twice in elections

Their has been a lot of laws passed since the founding of this nation, some great, some wonderful, some bad and some really bad.

Both Congress and the Supreme Court need to review and abolish this idea that Corporations are Persons. We have Electoral Candidates saying Corporations are persons, how can one say something made by a group of men, run by a group of men, with no independent thought or will, no ability to agree or object with the decisions the CEOs, Owners and Shareholders actually be a Person? Oh perhaps one could use the argument about "Persons" in a vegetative state or on life support, however if that was true how does this Corporation continue to produce, earn and affect world markets?

If Corporations are persons do they themselves file their tax returns? Perhaps, that is a bad example since real persons can use filing agencies or perhaps not, does a Corporation sign the form or does the CEO or Owner? Can a Corporation be killed like a human person? I know they can be dismantled, which isn't really a word we use when a Person is killed or injured is it?

No a Corporation is not a Person, however because of the successful use of a law over 200 years ago by a Rail Road that did not want to pay taxes on its mortgages, it used a law that was meant to protect and help Black Men and Women seeking justice and probably one slick talking lawyer too pull this off, the spiral of giving an Inanimate Object run by man or men Person-Hood was born. The problem with Person-Hood for Corporations has none too few dangers for this nation.

First and foremost that come to mind has three parts Accountability, Responsibility, and Liability. If the CEO of a Corporation creates and manufacturers something, for the sake of an example lets say a drug. A person takes this drug and dies, the Corporation gets sued, the CEO gets fired, fined or nothing happens, however if a person like myself were to do this it becomes ether a case Manslaughter or Murder?

If a Corporation is a Person should not the same rules and laws apply to them?

Should not the Corporation not be dragged off to jail for the same charges?

If the Corporation happens to be in a state that has the death penalty and found guilty can it too be put too death?

Should not a Corporation be sent too jail and while awaiting trial and not be allowed to earn income as such is the case for all other Persons?

No, this doesn't happen to a Corporation, it happens to persons though all the time.

If Corporations are Persons and I am a Person, why do I not receive the same tax breaks, Government Benefits, funding or Bailouts?

Odd how one little ruling over 200 years ago could have such an effect today.

The reason I have put this petition forward is there is another group lobbying for a Corporation Vote, that means the CEO Person or Owner Person will get their one vote and then cast another ballot by Proxy for the Corporation. They have other issues such as Corporation's 14th Amendment rights are being violated and will be pushing for having the 15th Amendment applied to their Person-Hood.

We ask you to end this because while justice may be blind, no one said it was stupid