About Quote by Sandra Day O'Connor

“Traditional English, Dutch, French, and Spanish law didn’t say that corporations are people. The U.S. Constitution wasn’t written with that idea; corporations aren’t mentioned…

— Thom Hartmann

The Constitution provided no protection against corporations; the Constitution has a blind spot for them.

— Sheldon Whitehouse

“Corporations are not legal “persons” with constitutional rights and freedoms of their own, but legal fictions that we created and must therefore control.”

— Kalle Lasn

Like the government, corporations must be bound with the chains of the Constitution, and especially of the Bill of Rights.

— L. Neil Smith

“since 1886, the Bill of Rights has been explicitly applied to corporations. Perhaps most astoundingly, no branch of the U.S. government ever formally enacted…

— Thom Hartmann

It's crazy that the Constitution has to be amended to clarify what for the majority of Americans is a clear and true statement: corporations…

— Chellie Pingree

“nation and the Framers of the Constitution. They were sufficiently worried about corporate power that they didn’t even include in the Constitution the word…

— Thom Hartmann

For the first 200 years of our nation's history, corporations were never defined by the courts as persons with free speech rights under the…

— John Bonifaz

The Supreme Court gives corporations the same rights as a human being. It's absurd. You can't do that.

— Malachy McCourt

The Framers of the Bill of Rights did not purport to 'create' rights. Rather, they designed the Bill of Rights to prohibit our Government…

— Anonymous

The very inclusion of the right to keep and bear arms in the Bill of Rights shows that the framers of the Constitution considered…

— Samuel Ray Cummings

It might be added that corporations have no consciences, no beliefs, no feelings, no thoughts, no desires. Corporations help structure and facilitate the activities…

— John Paul Stevens