Court Opinion

ID: 9416633
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-02 19:50:38.95807+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:19:58.308304
License: Public Domain

Mr. Justice DANIEL.
In dissenting from the decision of the court in this cause, it is not designed to reiterate objections which in several previous instances have been expressed. I will merely remark, with reference to the present decision, and to others in this court, numerous as they are said to have been, that they have wholly failed to bring conviction to my mind, that a corporation can be a citizen, or that the term citizen can be correctly understood in any other sense than that in which it was understood in common acceptation when the Constitution was adopted, and as it is universally by writers on government explained, without a single exception.