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by brianpgordon 2551 days ago
OK, but the whole argument rests entirely on corporate personhood. Without it, the 1st amendment isn't even in play.
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You’ve got it backward. It was the law that tried to use corporate personhood to subvert the first amendment. What Citizens United said is that you can’t deny groups of people their first amendment rights just because they’re acting through a corporation.