Ever since the democratic systems permitted their various courts to give corporations the status of persons, the individual as citizen has been on the defensive. How could it be otherwise? If you are a person before the law and Exxon or Ford is also a person, it is clear that the concept of democratic legitimacy lying with the individual has been mortally wounded.
About this quote
- What does it mean?
- Granting corporations personhood undermines individual democratic legitimacy by equating citizens with powerful entities.
- In plain terms
- Corporations being people in law hurts citizen democracy.
- What can you take from it?
- Corporate legal status threatens democratic equality.
Where it applies
Putting it to work
Questions to consider
- Should corporations have political rights?
- How do we protect individual power?
Another view
Corporations are legal entities but not moral agents like humans.
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