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happyslug

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17. Remember that was the "Secret Agenda" of Congress when the 14th was passed
Tue Dec 11, 2012, 04:18 PM
Dec 2012

No record of such "Secret Agenda" is reported at the time the 14th was proposed, various proposed constitutional amendments were proposed in the 1860s to protect corporations, but none of them even survived to get a vote in a committee let alone Congress but it was the Lawyer for the Southern Pacific who said it was intention of Congress to expand Equal Protection to Corporations when he was in Congress when the 14th was passed. This is the start of Corporations as persons doctrine in the 1880s, an expansion of the term "Equal Protection of the laws" to mean something beyond racial discrimination.

True Conservatives should support the Court to reverse its decision in that case and rule Corporations are NOT people and thus NOT subject to Equal Protection of the laws Clause of the 14th amendment. This would mean other groups will also NOT be able to use that doctrine but it is worth the price if we can get corporations under control.

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