Delaware is home to more corporations than people. Human people, that is, as under longstanding state law and the US Supreme Court’s infamous 2010 ruling, corporations are people, too.
A judge in Delaware—a state with more registered business entities than people—ruled Monday in favor of a small town that allows corporations to vote in local elections.
Delaware Superior Court Judge Craig Karsnitz ruled that the town of Fenwick Island, population 400, did not violate the state Constitution by permitting business entities—which make up 12% of the town’s “population”—to vote in municipal elections, as case plaintiff the ACLU of Delaware had claimed.
“What is a ‘person?’ When one cuts to the heart of this case, that is the question,” Karsnitz wrote to open his 20-page ruling.
If apple is fruit why can’t you make applesauce with orange?
Good point. Let’s go again. If money is speech, then why isn’t the US Federal Reserve considered to be the most prolific writer/speaker of all time? And if money is legal tender, does that mean that some kinds of speech have within them the obligation of others to listen?
I mean I totally agree that money isn’t speech and that’s a bullshit ruling.
Just pointing out that A→B ≠ B→A. That’s a very fundamental point of logic upon which nearly all formal logic rests.
Yes absolutely.
It is however not always clear-cut that “A is B” maps to A–>B as opposed to A<–>B. We do say “the square root of nine is three”, “a widow is a woman whose husband died” and “the current prime minister of Canada is Mark Carney”.