...corporate
personhood is a real scandal...the meaning of
the 14th Amendment was expanded so that 'person'
included corporations, and over the years corporations
have gotten rights that are way beyond those
of persons of flesh and blood...there's plenty
of anti-corporate feeling in the country but
it's unfocused... a constitutional amendment
would be a great idea... there has to be a lot
of organizing and educational work to build
up a major groundwell of support which will
call for restoring the 14th Amendment to what
the words say...the idea that a corporation
should be given personal rights is a major attack
on classical liberal doctrines which held that
rights inhere in 'persons' - persons of flesh
and blood, not collectivist legal entities established
by state power...
-- Noam Chomsky