Geoffrey MillerVerified account

Yes and no are top two results ATM, which is unfortunate, because the only reasonable answer is sometimes. To those saying no, do you really think no one should be able to sue a corporation? To those saying yes, do you really think a corporation should be able to run for office?

Corporations were considered "persons" so they could pay taxes declare bankruptcy, etc instead of the people incorporating. It allows for risk taking, new business & the like w/o the need to ruin entrepreneurs. But corps can't run for office & many other "human" things.

Corporations don’t speak, people do. Stifling a corporations speech is stifling an individuals speech

Imagine if individuals could speak as private citizens, without expressing all views through their work place?

Corporations are not individuals. Therefore individual rights cannot be given to corporations.

As the default, they should. The bar for lying, deception, reckless disregard for truth, certainly should be different in order to protect consumers in the civil legal system.

In other words (in case it isn't obvious) I believe that only individual rights are inalienable. I don't want to debate the semantics of the definition of the word 'rights'.