Reply #135: sorry, but I'm still trying to figure out where in the constitution you find

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a prohbition against forcing expression apart from the first amendment, which apparently you don't believe has any application to a corporate entity.

As the SCOTUS has made clear, the freedom of speech protected by the First Amendment protects both the freedom to speak and the freedom not to be compelled to speak.

If corporations are not protected under the First Amendment, then they have no protection against state action, by either the federal government or from state governments. (Your reference to the 14th Amendment is perplexing in relation to our discussion,w which has been about the application of the First Amendment to actions by the Federal government, not to the First Amendments applicaton to the states through the fourteenth amendment).

Again, I'm at a loss under your theory that the First Amendment only applies to "natural persons" what would stand in the way of the government enacting legislation that required corporations to fly the American flag, or to give nnother example involving a prohibition on speech rather than compelled speech, barred a corporation from using the phrase "Seasons Greetings" in its communications with members of the public.