God didn't create corporations
The Declaration of Independence rests its claims for equal political rights on the fact that the "Creator" endowed human beings with "certain inalienable rights." The corporation is not mentioned.
As millions and millions of dollars of corporate money are funneled into the American electoral process, some of it even apparently from foreign sources,we can see why the Founders left corporations out of this fundamental assertion of who gets to be "We the People." In his famous dissent to the "Citizens United vs. the Federal Election Commission," ruling, Justice John Paul Stevens made this very clear:
"It might also be added that corporations have no consciences, no beliefs, no feelings, no thoughts, no desires. Corporations help structure and facilitate the activities of human beings, to be sure, and their "personhood" often serves as a useful legal fiction. But they are not themselves members of "We the People" by whom and for whom our Constitution was established."Much has been written about the "judicial activism" of the Roberts' Supreme Court in making this extraordinary decision that overturned nearly a century of precedent, the net effect being to
make a corporation into a person, as Dahlia Lithwick wrote for Slate on
"The Pinocchio Project: Watching as the Supreme Court turns a corporation into a real live boy." more:
http://onfaith.washingtonpost.com/onfaith/panelists/susan_brooks_thistlethwaite/2010/10/god_didnt_create_corporations.html
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