Idea: Corporate Personhood Bibliography: Difference between revisions

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Introduction

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

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 Corporate Personhood.

What happens to people's moral sense of what is "right" or "wrong" when they are given a shield that limits their responsibility for the actions of their enterprise? What effect does the profit motive have on how people make decisions about what their enterprise should or should not do?

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. (Wikipedia)

Corporate Personhood Wikipedia Article

Google Searches

Articles

10 Supreme Court Rulings—Before Hobby Lobby—That Turned Corporations Into People - Mother Jones

Protecting People From Corporations

Foreign Ownership of U.S. Corporations

Who controls the world
Google Search: Foreign Ownership Of u.s. Stocks
Foreign Ownership Of US Stocks - finance.townhall.com
How much of America do foreigners really own? - MarketWatch, Sept 27, 2016
Ending-foreign-influenced-corporate-spending-u-s-elections - americanprogress.org
- Current election laws and Supreme Court precedent are clear when it comes to foreign influence: It is illegal for foreign governments, corporations, or individuals to directly or indirectly spend money to influence U.S. elections. These laws are foundational to U.S. democracy and exist primarily because foreign entities are likely to have policy and political interests that do not always align with America’s best interests.
- Unfortunately, the Citizens United decision opened an unexpected loophole that makes the United States more vulnerable to foreign influence. Because foreign entities can invest in U.S. corporations—and those corporations can in turn spend unlimited amounts of money on U.S. elections—foreign entities can now exert influence on the nation’s domestic political process. This is especially noteworthy as foreign investors now own a whopping 35 percent of all U.S. stock.
Fact Sheet: ending-foreign-influenced-corporate-spending-u-s-elections-2/ - Center for American Progress

Politics

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Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund (CELDF)
**Democracy School Online
- Tom Linzey Appearances on Thom Hartmann Show
RepresentUs
Move to Amend (The local Wikidelphia page)
Unpartisan Politics
- Money In Politics Podcast: Historical Background
  - Show Notes
Video: PAY 2 PLAY: Democracy's High Stakes (1 hour & 29 minutes)
Citizens United vs. FEC: How Did It Happen? - From PAY 2 PLAY http://pay2play.tv (11 minutes)

Adoption of Ideas

Possible Presentations

One stab at an event description: Cognitive Bias and Democracy

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 *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 Corporate Personhood.
+What happens to people's moral sense of what is "right" or "wrong" when they are given a shield that limits their responsibility for the actions of their enterprise?
+What effect does the profit motive have on how people make decisions about what their enterprise should or should not do?
 ==== 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 Wikipedia]) ====