Supreme Court jurisprudence dating back to the 19th Century has gradually established the principle that corporations should be deemed to be "people" for many Constitutional purposes, including determining the scope of many rights set forth thereunder. The historical record contains no support for the notion that the Founding Fathers would have supported such a notion, nor that it was an intended consequence of governments' creation of limited liability business entities. Moreover, recent Supreme Court decisions such as Citizens United and McCutchen, and the immediate ramifications that such decisions have caused, illustrate the very real dangers that extending personhood to corporations can present in a democratic society.



