Chief Justice John Marshall quote on "corporate personhood"

[DailyGrind51]

"John Marshall, the nation’s greatest chief justice, saw a corporation as “an artificial being, invisible, intangible,” he wrote in 1819. “Being the mere creature of law, it possesses only those properties which the charter of its creation confers upon it, either expressly, or as incidental to its very existence.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/22/opinion/22tue1.html



Me thinks John Roberts, et. al. needs to have at least more respect for "precedent" than he has for the President!

[zbdent]

1. silly liberals ... now liberals apparently don't believe in evolution!

btw, if you don't get it ... that's

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[eShirl]

2. instead of the Frankenstein's Monsters we have now

[rpannier]

3. K&R

[Angry Dragon]

4. Makes me think of a test tube baby or a clone

and I know the republicans hate those two things

[doc03]

5. Mitt Romney said corporations are people

case closed.

[Volaris]

6. well, YAH, but your missing the key point that Judicial Precedent

is another of those things that "only works in MY favor (never YOURS), 'cause I'M a Republican.

I would bet good money that Precedent is just AWESOME to John Roberts if it means The Court gets to do things like uphold Corporate Person-hood, but not so much if a challenge to Roe ever gets to his desk...