DU Poll: Third Way or FDR?

[Jim Lane]

42. I certainly won't speak for Tarc, but I'll tell you my third option.

I am an FDR Democrat (favor single-payer health care, for example, which is what he'd be for today). I believe, however, that the attack on corporate personhood, although very popular on the left, is a huge mistake.

At some point there will likely again be a Republican President with majorities in both houses of Congress. When they pass a bill confiscating, without compensation, all the assets of a corporation they dislike (say, the Sierra Club), what will you do?

Under current law, the victimized corporation's assets run to court and point out that the Due Process Clause of the Fifth Amendment prohibits the government from depriving any person of life, liberty or property without due process of law, and that it therefore protects the Sierra Club. If, however, the Constitution has been amended to provide that the word "person" in its provisions means only natural persons (i.e., human beings), then President Cruz or whoever it is will get away with it.