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= There is a growing movement opposed to the granting of person-based legal rights to corporations. See: [[Personhood of Corporations]]


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David Korten:


"The doctrine of corporate personhood creates an interesting legal contradiction. The corporation is owned by its shareholders and is therefore their property. If it is also a legal person, then it is a person owned by others and thus exists in a condition of slavery -- a status explicitly forbidden by the Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution. So is a corporation a person illegally held in servitude by its shareholders? Or is it a person who enjoys the rights of personhood that take precedence over the presumed ownership rights of its shareholders? So far as I have been able to determine, this contradiction has not been directly addressed by the courts."
(http://kimkleinandthecommons.blogspot.com/2010/02/corporate-personhood.html)


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