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by staller 839 days ago
It even predates Citizens United, 1 U.S. Code ยง 1 (introduced by The Dictionary Act in 1871) defines Corporations as people.

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/1/1

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> even predates Citizens United

It goes back to 1886 [1]. Ditching corporate personhood just makes the law convoluted for no gain. (Oh, you forgot to say corporations in your murder or fraud statute? Oh no!)

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporate_personhood