1) The best metaphor for a corporation is an “apple within a barrel where most apples are good and just a few bad”. It takes one apple to ruin it for the rest or spoil its companion. Corporations can often be seen as “bad apple's” bent on taking control of public power and only focused on making money, regardless of the consequences. Corporations are trying to engage themselves in as much profit as possible at anyone’s expense without realizing how unsustainable they are being towards the environment.
2) The 14th amendment is “All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and the State wherein they reside”. The idea of the amendment was to aid newly freed African Americans, but the amendment provided an opportunity for corporations to seek further legal protection. The corporate lawyers took advantage of the system and took more rights for " businesses by declaring them a person under the law. Some rights included spending money on political candidates to skew the election, have their contacts respected by the government, and freedom of speech. …show more content…
But in order to determine the legality of business proceedings, the legal fiction treating a corporation as an artificial person was created by the 14th amendment. Corporations have legal rights a normal person would have and more such as the right to spend money in elections. I think the idea of a corporation being a person is problematic because corporations are physically not a person and will never be a person, but they have more rights than the average person in this world. It is unfair and hard to understand why. Our world has given corporations the power to be a “person” by not standing up for their rights and allowing them to get away with many
2) The 14th amendment is “All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and the State wherein they reside”. The idea of the amendment was to aid newly freed African Americans, but the amendment provided an opportunity for corporations to seek further legal protection. The corporate lawyers took advantage of the system and took more rights for " businesses by declaring them a person under the law. Some rights included spending money on political candidates to skew the election, have their contacts respected by the government, and freedom of speech. …show more content…
But in order to determine the legality of business proceedings, the legal fiction treating a corporation as an artificial person was created by the 14th amendment. Corporations have legal rights a normal person would have and more such as the right to spend money in elections. I think the idea of a corporation being a person is problematic because corporations are physically not a person and will never be a person, but they have more rights than the average person in this world. It is unfair and hard to understand why. Our world has given corporations the power to be a “person” by not standing up for their rights and allowing them to get away with many