Corporation Person Hood Case Study

Question One
Corporation Person hood is an interesting notion, when it comes to white collar crimes. In the YouTube video called the “The Corporation,” it is then stated that there is a term called Corporation person hood. This term corporation person hood is basically the rights that the corporation has, just as every individual person in the United States. An example of this is the first amendment, this amendment has many realms, such as the freedom of speech., freedom of religion. So, a corporation has rights to these individualistic rights as a person, because they are a person as the supreme courts ruled. However, there are double standards to these rights for corporations. When you take ford for an example, when they knowingly knew of a malfunction in their ford pinto. They had people from their company figure out if the cost to fix the problem and weather it out weighted the cost to casualties. We know the outcome of the failure of their product, ended up costing them more in their lawsuits and their reputation. Furthermore, ford as a corporation was not held for manslaughter, for the people that were killed because of their negligence and greed. Ford as a company took only a lost in their funds, but no further action was taken. Also, no person in the decision-making process of …show more content…
Corporation bring wealth, economic standings and goods to all consumers in America and the world. However, corporations have many privileges, that some American citizen don’t even possess. Corporations have a great power and they utilize it to their fullest advantage to get away with what most individuals can’t legally. They also have the power over other countries who are willing to lower the cost of production to put out a product that is also cheaper for the consumer. While dehumanizing and demoralizing their workers. Then if caught in a tangle of lies, there will be a fall guy, who they will say he was just a “bad