How the First Amendment Works - Opinionator Blog

How the First Amendment Works - Opinionator Blog - NYTimes.com.

... Regarding corporations as persons for some legal purposes ... has been the practice for a long time, but ... giving them rights enjoyed by flesh and blood citizens is arguably something new, and something Justice Stevens vigorously protests against ...: A corporation does not have a conscience. Its interests are exclusively economic and do not include the health and welfare of society. It is not seeking to join and further the free flow of ideas. Its acts do not reflect the will of shareholders. Its massive funding of political advertising amounts to buying votes and can not finally be distinguished from bribery.