Corporations Are People and Should Be Granted the Rights of People

Thank you Con for supplying the source of your quote on Unalienable Rights. There is a big difference between a “rough draught” that is discarded compared to the final form in the Declaration of Independence. Actually the quote you used is from Julian Boyd in his attempt to “create a transcript of Jefferson’s draft.” If you look at Jefferson's draft, one could disagree with Boyd. http://www.loc.gov...You should be careful when quoting statements, and be sure you get the name right. As for the Bill of Rights according to ushistory.org, that Bill only “put limits on the national government's right,” as I pointed out in Round 2. “They [Bill of Rights] put limits on the national government's right to control specific civil liberties and rights,...”“Together with the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution, the Bill of Rights helps to define the American political system and the government's relationship to its citizens.”http://www.ushistory.org...Con stated the following: “The rights to life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness are not legally binding structures within US law, and cannot be truly considered as part of this debate.”I will take issue with Con. In Amendment 5 (part of the Bill of Rights) of the US Constitution we have the following quote:“nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law;”The restriction on government (“nor be deprived”) over the emotion of human “Happiness” would be difficult to manage or define in a legal framework. Referring back to the physical Laws of Nature, once alive (“Life”), has the freedom (“Liberty”) in the pursuit of survival; otherwise, there is no life. All life requires property (territorial space, food, etc) to survive. Survival is a prerequisite for human “Happiness.” Therefore, “nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law;” is a restriction on government not to “deprive” our Unalienable Rights. According to the nineteenth century French philosopher Frederic Bastiat stated the following:“Life, liberty, and property do not exist because men have made laws. On the contrary, it was the fact that life, liberty, and property existed beforehand that caused man to make laws in the first place.”http://ebookbrowsee.net...I would highly recommend Con to read Bastiat's book “The Law” (the above ebook link). Even Bastiat agrees with Takac that “life, liberty, and property” (aka Unalienable Rights) “existed beforehand,” that is, before the concept of government or man-made laws, and therefore, part of physical nature. In Con's closing paragraph he stated the following, “... a corporation cannot be considered to be the same as living beings. The corporation itself is not alive, nor is it composed of the same fundamental structures as living creatures are composed of.”Living creatures are hierarchies of living-systems. The blood-cells circulating gives life to organs, organs give life to humans, and humans give life to corporations. Without those blood-cells, there will be no corporations, therefore, corporations are living-systems.We could look at it from the context of evolution. First came living cells, them came organs, then came humans, then came corporations. Corporations are groups of people and are granted Unalienable Rights by the Laws of Nature. The US Constitution states “nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property,” (aka Unalienable Rights). The corporation's “life” depends on people, operating in free-markets (“liberty”) and requires “property” to survive. Therefore, corporations are people and granted the same rights of people.