Reply #27: Well, [View All]

[Occulus]

Corporate personhood was enshrined as a legal doctrine in Santa Clara Cty. V. Southern Pacific Railroad Co. In that decision, the SCOTUS found- in the headnotes, but not the actual case decision- that the personhood of corporations was already established, and stated they were not willing to hear or rule upon arguments to that effect.

In other words, the issue of corporate personhood was never argued before the SCOTUS- they simply accepted as a given truth, without debate. I think it would make a good test case to challenge the political donations and access of the largest corporate political contributors, but I have no idea how such an argument would take form.

Any case challenging corporate personhood before the Court would have to be all-encompassing; i.e., not merely addressing an aspect of the doctrine, but rather, the whole of the doctrine itself.

Note that this is a legal doctrine based entirely upon the precedent established by many cases, and not upon an actual law.