[PEN-L:33404] Re: Local Government Rejects Corporate Personhood

[andie nachgeborenen <andie_nachgeborenen@xxxxxxxxx>]

Alas, the supremacy clause of the United States Constitution means that this gesture has no legal effect. Federal law is supreme over municipal la, and the US Supreme Ct has jheld long ago that corporations are persons for purposes of the 14th Amendment, and thus for purposes of the various rights in the Bill of Rights that have been subsequently incorporated against the states via the 14A, including due process, no takings, and the like. A local govt pronouncement cannot trump an Sct opinion.  jks

 Michael Hoover <hooverm@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> "First Local Government in the United States 
> Refuses to Recognize Corporate Claims to Civil Rights: 
> Bans Corporate Involvement in Governing!!" 
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> There is now an escalation of events in Pennsylvania regarding corporate 
> personhood! 
>
> The elected officials of Porter Township, Pennsylvania, have passed a 
> law declaring that corporations operating in that township may not 
> claim civil and constitutional privileges.

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