• Move to Amend consists of a multi-racial coalition of individuals and organizations, and is calling for a constitutional amendment to address Corporate Personhood. (waer.org)
  • Brad Blog: 'Move to Amend' but is 'Corporate Personhood' Valid Even Under Existing Constitution? (protectourelections.org)
  • Move to Amend is a coalition of hundreds of organizations and hundreds of thousands of individuals committed to social and economic justice, ending corporate rule, and building a vibrant democracy that is genuinely accountable to the people, not corporate interests. (movetoamend.org)
  • Why Amend the Constitution to Eliminate Corporate Personhood? (ctgreenparty.org)
  • Granting non-human entities personhood is a Western concept applied to corporations. (wikipedia.org)
  • British law of this period (such as the Joint Stock Companies Act 1856) appeared to focus more on corporations that more closely resembled traditional joint ventures, while American law was driven by the need to manage a more diverse corporate landscape. (wikipedia.org)
  • In a U.S. historical context, the phrase "corporate personhood" refers to the ongoing legal debate over the extent to which rights traditionally associated with natural persons should also be afforded to juridical persons including corporations. (wikipedia.org)
  • If there are any primitive corporate agents in Hobbes' political thought, they are representative assemblies, not states or corporations. (cam.ac.uk)
  • The decision affirms the legal notion that corporations have "personhood", giving them every First Amendment right associated therewith. (thevinnyeastwoodshow.com)
  • This timeline is a great education tool to explain how corporations have used the legal system to gain constitutional "personhood rights" through court decisions and how people have organized to gain constitutional rights through amendments (with a few exceptions). (movetoamend.org)
  • On January 21, 2010, the U.S. Supreme court took another step in the long - and many say misguided - journey to granting corporations personhood under the U.S. Constitution. (kboo.fm)
  • We, as a society, are losing sight of one another as human beings witness the Wall-Street money chase in which numerous, large corporations discount human value as they increasingly convert people into faceless commodities that are bought and sold on a whim to improve the corporate standing in the competitive marketplace. (culturechange.org)
  • Americans deserve to know where candidates stand on the illegitimate doctrine of Corporate Personhood. (cleantechies.com)
  • Because corporate personhood is an example of how we came to understand a non-human entity as a bearer of rights, we can use lessons from the contingent development of this doctrine to inform the development of environmental personhood. (ssrn.com)
  • it is possible today to imagine that new views on environmental precariousness and new legal conceptions of the standing of nature might combine to make the doctrine of environmental personhood a robustly protective one. (ssrn.com)
  • The doctrine of corporate personhood subverts what was intended as a citizen's right to freedom of speech by its extension to corporate entities. (panderingpoliticians.com)
  • Allowing companies to assert the beliefs of shareholders as their own contradicts established doctrine and risks corporate manipulation of regulations designed to be generally applicable. (bc.edu)
  • Corporate personhood or juridical personality is the legal notion that a juridical person such as a corporation, separately from its associated human beings (like owners, managers, or employees), has at least some of the legal rights and responsibilities enjoyed by natural persons. (wikipedia.org)
  • Environmental personhood is the nascent notion of designating parts of nature as legal persons entitled to independent regard and consideration. (ssrn.com)
  • Corporate personhood, the notion that a unit of property owned by several people can itself be considered a person, is an accepted position in most modern legal systems. (rationalwiki.org)
  • In fact, the "corporate system," say analysts, "has no room for beneficence toward employees, communities, or the environment," a notion endlessly demonstrated on a daily global scale. (culturechange.org)
  • Research Handbook on Corporate Purpose and Personhood, Elizabeth Pollman & Robert B. Thompson, eds. (bc.edu)
  • The Supreme Court heard oral arguments today on a case between AT&T and the Federal Communications Commission , revisiting the legal concept of "corporate personhood" last strengthened under the court's Citizen United ruling on corporate campaign spending. (propublica.org)
  • Given the importance of the issue, it is not surprising that a storm of controversy arose over a US Supreme Court's ruling in 2010 that government limits on corporate spending in political campaigns violated the First Amendment right to freedom of speech. (lumenlearning.com)
  • China will almost certainly face weakening overall export competitiveness while the US gains leadership over the region's trade rules, strengthened corporate monopolies, and increased political (and military) influence. (rt.com)
  • Federal courts have promulgated two notions foreign to the signatories of the U.S. Constitution and toxic to true democracy - "corporate personhood" and "money-speech equivalence. (panderingpoliticians.com)
  • Amending the U.S. Constitution to eliminate corporate personhood will open up the creative space in the American democracy, according to David Cobb, the Green Party 's presidential candidate in 2004. (ctgreenparty.org)
  • Women, blacks, Native Americans, indentured servants - none of them had legal personhood under the Constitution. (ctgreenparty.org)
  • Using the sample of China's listed firms from 2010 to 2017, this study examines the impact of corporate social responsibility (CSR) and financialization on corporate innovation in high-polluting industries. (bvsalud.org)
  • Remember that Italian dictator Benito Mussolini , the father of modern fascism, once said "Fascism should more properly be called corporatism because it is the merger of state and corporate power. (thevinnyeastwoodshow.com)
  • Human Rights after Corporate Personhood: An Uneasy Merger? (movetoamend.org)
  • David Cobb, a co-founder and outreach director for the coalition, says they hope to educate, agitate and organize for a democracy free of corporate influence in the United States. (waer.org)
  • This was the case in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission when the Court ended most limitations on corporate involvement in politics, sinking the McCain-Feingold Campaign Reform Act and threatening both our democracy and our national security. (panderingpoliticians.com)
  • Why are we letting corporate Supremists steal our democracy from us? (hightowerlowdown.org)
  • Corporate personhood and the campaign to legalize democracy. (kboo.fm)
  • February 8, 2011- As Vermont becomes the first state to consider a Constitutional amendment that would put an end to 'corporate personhood', it is perhaps worthwhile to examine the historical context in which the concept arose and the forceful challenges to its validity that have been mustered by a minority of Supreme Court Justices. (protectourelections.org)
  • Magee, Bryan P. "Impersonal Personhood: Crafting a Coherent Theory of the Corporate Entity," 104 Cornell L. Rev. 497 (2019). (movetoamend.org)
  • Daniel Dennett defines an entity as having personhood if it is an intentional system, is capable of reciprocity and communication, and is conscious. (rationalwiki.org)
  • We are not anti-corporate," Cobb said. (ctgreenparty.org)
  • The American revolution, then, is a story about a people's uprising against unaccountable corporate CEO's, Cobb said. (ctgreenparty.org)
  • This week, Dave talks with David Cobb , the 2004 national Green Party presidential candidate about how communities are organizing to roll back corporate personhood and strengthen the democratic process. (kboo.fm)
  • And, according to Truthout , the Western States Petroleum Agency-the biggest corporate lobby in California-spent $4.7 million in 2013, and $1.5 million in the first quarter of 2014, contributing to the estimated $15 million the anti-fracking coalition Californians Against Fracking says the industry spent lobbying against SB 1132. (globalexchange.org)
  • The artists have established the Pittsburgh Lobby for Tree Personhood (PLTP). (alleghenyfront.org)
  • The group will then begin its efforts to lobby for personhood, perhaps at the municipal level, or the state level if need be. (alleghenyfront.org)
  • 2015-16 Judge Ralph K. Winter Lecture on Corporate Law and Governance (1 hr. (movetoamend.org)
  • Cynthia E. Clark serves as the director of the Harold S. Geneen Institute of Corporate Governance, an institute dedicated to bridging corporate governance research with practice. (barnesandnoble.com)
  • Additionally, she is an active member and Governance Fellow with the National Association of Corporate Directors (NACD), the Society for Governance Professionals and 2020 Women on Boards. (barnesandnoble.com)
  • some these fundamental questions of corporate governance were addressed. (economicpopulist.org)
  • Because corporate entities have virtually unlimited resources, they can influence public opinion and affect outcomes of elections far more than corporeal beings. (panderingpoliticians.com)
  • These two doctrines have enabled corporate entities and their lobbyists to effectively seize control of our government. (panderingpoliticians.com)
  • Given the advances in AI in only 10 years, it will not be long before the question of personhood will have to be addressed for non-biological entities. (rationalwiki.org)
  • Founders of the United States, such as Thomas Jefferson, recognized the dangers of corporate greed, which accounts for why the founding fathers believed corporate charters should be granted only to those entities willing to serve the greater public interest. (culturechange.org)
  • Given Supreme Court rulings on corporate personhood, statutory law cannot restore government by and for the people. (panderingpoliticians.com)
  • The Progenitor of Inequalities-Corporate Personhood vs. Human Beings: The biggest prize of all for the uses of corporate-dominant inequality over real people is the control of the Congress, state legislatures, country boards, city councils, and elections, along with the selection of judges. (movetoamend.org)
  • After all, market share translates into political power, which translates into higher profit margins, both of which exacerbate the corporate disregard for people, the rampant destruction of Nature, and the squandering of natural resources. (culturechange.org)
  • jats:p There is an important but underappreciated ambiguity in Hobbes' concept of personhood. (cam.ac.uk)
  • At best, the current concept of corporate political rights comes from what is one of the most monumental acts of negligence made by the Supreme Court At worst, it was the most hideous case of economically-based political sabotage. (opednews.com)
  • Corporate personhood has evolved into a highly controversial topic since it was first established in the famous supreme court case, Santa Clara County v. Southern Pacific Railroad. (ipl.org)
  • With the influx of tens of millions of undisclosed dollars into this year's presidential race, the ACLU is publicly re-examining its support of the Citizens United Supreme Court case which removes all controls over corporate spending in politics. (opednews.com)
  • The second change came in 1886, when the U.S. Supreme Court made the corporation all but invulnerable by decreeing, in a case brought by the Southern Pacific Railroad against Santa Clara County, California, that a corporation has the right of "personhood" under the 14th Amendment (originally intended to protect the rights of freed slaves) and, as such, enjoys the same constitutional protections that you or I do as individuals. (culturechange.org)
  • Ancient Indian society used legal personhood for political, social, and economic purposes. (wikipedia.org)
  • Contemporary political theorists and philosophers tend to miss what is unique and valuable about Hobbes' idea of state personality because they project the idea of corporate agency onto it. (cam.ac.uk)
  • Even in those countries that strictly limit corporate influence on political campaigns, the corporate sector can still play an important role in the development of governmental policies through sophisticated, high-level lobbying. (lumenlearning.com)
  • These can serve the emerging and critically necessary U.S. "movement of movements" quite well as an initial political orientation for effective mass resistance to the doomsday scenario increasingly pressed forward by corporate America's "profits first at any cost," ruling elite. (socialistaction.org)
  • Yale Law School: "Corporate Power Ratchet: The Courts' Role in Eroding 'We the People's' Ability to Constrain Our Corporate Creations. (movetoamend.org)
  • The campaign will hold a community forum at 7 p.m. tonight at the Center for Peace and Social Justice at 2013 East Genesee St. The forum will focus on how Syracuse can join the national movement against Corporate Personhood. (waer.org)
  • The history and corporatist agenda that birthed Corporate Personhood. (libsyn.com)
  • In allowing individuals the right to economically benefit from that fiction, especially the limited liability it entails, the state has the right to set the terms of corporate existence. (opednews.com)
  • In contrast, the financialization of non-state-owned enterprises will hinder corporate innovation, but it will not affect the association between CSR and technology innovation. (bvsalud.org)
  • This living artwork is titled "A tree, a corporation, a person," and its ambition is just that: to see if the artists and museum can gain legal personhood for a plant so it might, among other attainments, own both itself and its modest plot of land. (alleghenyfront.org)
  • If personhood is granted, the next step would be creating a limited-liability corporation with the tree as the sole shareholder. (alleghenyfront.org)
  • Economist Milton Friedman gave voice to this pinhole vision when he answered his own rhetorical question: "So the question is, do corporate executives, provided they stay within the law, have responsibilities in their business activities other than to make as much money for their stockholders as possible? (culturechange.org)
  • Drawing on current research of Corporate Social Responsibility, a new way to do business that resembles the way an ethical human would act in a business setting is suggested. (syr.edu)
  • Professor Chang's research focuses on employment matters, in particular social media, and how that impacts employment and management decisions, and on corporate social advocacy. (barnesandnoble.com)
  • From the perspective of the effectiveness of internal control, this study analyzes the influence of internal control on innovation performance and internal control on corporate social responsibility (CSR), and then analyzes the intermediary effect of CSR between internal control and innovation performance. (bvsalud.org)
  • When corporate executives are absurdly hypocritical, yet so obtuse that they don't even realize it, is it still hypocrisy… or. (jimhightower.com)
  • In court cases regarding corporate, the shareholders are not responsible for the company's debts but the company itself being a "legal person" is liable to repay those debts or be sued for the non-repayment of debts. (wikipedia.org)
  • But corporate "personhood" means the interests of the firm are distinct from those of the shareholders. (bc.edu)
  • Protecting the environment in this manner has gained momentum in the current moment as a result of and in reaction to the seemingly quotidian status of corporate personhood in protecting corporate rights. (ssrn.com)
  • In the United Kingdom there are no limits on corporate or individual giving in the general election, yet total spending on the 2010 general election was down 26 percent from 2005. (lumenlearning.com)
  • Although proponents of the TPP may claim that its focus is to help the economies of signatory countries create comprehensive market access, eliminate barriers to trade, improve labor rights and encourage environmental protection, every indication suggests that the wide-ranging agreement intends to maximize dramatically corporate revenues at the expense of public health and safety, civil liberties and national sovereignty. (rt.com)
  • This decision is a national disgrace and further invites direct corporate control of all aspects of society. (thevinnyeastwoodshow.com)
  • No longer do they act in the national interest or even give a pretense of being good national corporate citizens. (economicpopulist.org)
  • Meanwhile, the CSR engagements of high-polluting firms with high financial constraints play a stronger role in corporate innovation. (bvsalud.org)
  • As early as 800 BC, legal personhood was granted to guild-like śreṇī that operated in the public interest. (wikipedia.org)
  • The late Roman Republic granted legal personhood to municipalities, public works companies that managed public services, and voluntary associations (collegia) such as the early Catholic Church. (wikipedia.org)
  • He took the audience on a historical tour of the corporate framework that we know today. (ctgreenparty.org)
  • After writing much of this essay, I went to Justice Stevens' dissenting opinion in Citizens United to see if he addressed this fallacy of corporate personhood. (opednews.com)
  • Corporate innovation in high-polluting industries improves the energy consumption efficiency and reduces the emission of air pollutant, which mitigates the conflict between environment and economy. (bvsalud.org)
  • Personhood woo is the magical science that the religious right uses to "prove" that science understands human life to begin at conception, and that a human is a person, therefore a single cell is equally a person. (rationalwiki.org)
  • What is the appropriate level of corporate participation in the drafting of laws and regulations? (lumenlearning.com)
  • But environmental personhood need not be seen only as a foil for corporate power. (ssrn.com)
  • While the significant majority of the draft text remains inaccessible and shielded from public scrutiny due to draconian non-disclosure agreements, leaks made available by courageous individuals via WikiLeaks indicate that this trade deal intends to champion corporate rights and blur the divisions between governments and multinationals. (rt.com)
  • It is important to note that though Justice Sotomayor end up joining Stevens' dissent, the dissent does not mention Sotomayor's questioning of the fallacy of corporate personhood. (opednews.com)
  • As Americans Against Fracking's David Braun says, "Only in a world where corporate influence rules public policy would slash and burn technologies like fracking-which utilizes enormous quantities of fresh water and toxic chemicals to smash bedrock and release dirty energy-be considered a good idea. (globalexchange.org)
  • The dual doctrines of corporate personhood and money-speech equivalence must be utterly abolished via constitutional amendment. (panderingpoliticians.com)
  • In this chapter we ask, how much of this corporate influence is acceptable? (lumenlearning.com)
  • We will also explore the following related questions: How can corporate influence be controlled? (lumenlearning.com)
  • The secretive Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement is the Obama administration's bid to perpetuate US hegemony in Asia and lay the groundwork for a Pacific century led by American corporate and military muscle. (rt.com)