It’s always fun to look back at critical moments in history that you thought you knew and reassess them for new meaning and new insight.  At least, I’m boring enough to think so. . .

To whit: Corporate Personhood.  Yes, I know.  It’s not something we’re likely to change in the next SCOTUS session.  Still, this has more to do with curiosity than with any specific agenda or goal.

So, check out Wikipedia’s article on the subject, if you’ve got some time:
 

Corporate personhood - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Corporate personhood is a term used to describe the legal fiction used within United States law that a corporation, under the concept of legal entity, has a limited subset of the same constitutional rights as a human being. The choice of the word ‘person’ in ‘personhood’ arises from the way Section One of the 14th Amendment to the United States Constitution was worded and from earlier legal usage of the word ‘person’.

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