Corporations should not be entitled to the same legal rights as individuals. When corporations commit crimes, they don't go to jail and they rarely even pay a fine. The National Lawyers Guild "oppose[s] recognition of the personhood of corporations under the Fourteenth Amendment.[1] Protections of the Bill of Rights are given to people out of a concern for human dignity, liberty or equality." The National Lawyers Guild also believes that "[c]orporate participation in politics is presumptively illegitimate" and that "restraints on corporate political participation should be enacted and enforced." Our laws also need to impose an obligation on corporations to respect …
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