The Bishop and the Butterfly: Murder, Politics, and the End of the Jazz Age
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    Founders to Scalia: Corporations are not people. People are people. Free speech is for people only.

    By jollyroger on Thu, 01/21/2010 - 4:32pm |

    Students of legal history arcana share a chuckle whenever a claim to consitutional rights is made by a state chartered business entity.

    Only the elevation to jurisprudence of a footnote to an 1886 Supreme Court decision creates the dilemma we confront today.

    But wait!

    On our Supreme Court sits that beacon of originalism, Nino (I’d Rather be at the Opera) Scalia.

    Surely once he turns his prodigious intellect to the issue, he will agree that the (sacred) Founders never contemplated that the *Rights of Free Men could possibly extend to the then widely disparaged “public charter entities”?,

    Once the Federalist Society is alerted to this perversion of the Founders’ intent, it will be the quick work of next Court’s session to render safe the political landscape, by leaving in place the First Amendment mandate that money must be free to flow into political action from persons, but real live persons only.

    Save us, Obi Wan Scalia—you are our only hope!

    *No Due Process rights for corporations, either, other than those mandated by statute.