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*[[Idea: Corporate Personhood Bibliography]]
*[[User:Stan/mta]]
*[[Cognitive Bias and Democracy]]
*[[Move to Amend (MTA)]]

== Introduction To Personhood Event ==
You probably know or at lease suspect that there is something wrong in the world today... But, it's not easy to know just what. 
*Climate change, air and water pollution, warfare, economic distress, homelessness, health care, world wide population displacement, the school to prison pipeline, mass incarceration, gun violence,  

'''Corporate Personhood''' is the most significant legal term that nobody knows.

*<small>Every aspect of our economy and our democracy is impacted by the growing hegemony of corporations. Nothing in our society is as consequential to our lives and our ability as a free people to control the world we live in as is the doctrine of '''Corporate Personhood''' promulgated by the Supreme Court.</small> And, you probably don't believe that this is true.... yet.

=== Definition of Corporate Personhood ===
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 corporations.

*[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporate_personhood '''Corporate Personhood''' Wikipedia Article]

== History of Corporate Personhood ==

*[https://celdf.org/2019/09/thom-hartmann-book-club-how-wealth-rules-the-world/ Listen to commentary on the Thom Hartman Book Club] The first 5 minutes says SO MUCH.
* [http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2014/07/how-supreme-court-turned-corporations-people-200-year-saga/ How Supreme Court Turned Corporations into People - Mother Jones 2014/07]
* [http://www.nancho.net/corperson/timelin2.pdf Timeline of Personhood Rights and Powers - WILPF]
* [https://www.history.com/topics/united-states-constitution/citizens-united History.com on the effects of Citizens United]

Who gave the Supreme Court the right to create a new class of citizens?
You probably know or at lease suspect that there is something wrong in the World today... But, it's not easy to know just what.