Should a legal entity (corporation) get all the rights and responsibilities of a citizen?

Voting citizens have nothing to fear from non-voting corporations, unless we're too lazy to do our own research. Honestly, this hysteria is so yesterday.

No,,,, Corps should not vote, or marry, but they should be able to lobby.

Let me make this clear,,,,,,,,,,Corporations are people what else could they be?

This whole thing started because the Federal Election Committee denied Citizens United Corporation the right to air their film called "Hillary the Movie" to contradict the Michael Moore films.

Now if Liberal Michael Moore can show politically motivated films but a Conservative Corporation called Citizens United cannot show their politically motivated films, then there is a clear violation of free speech, caused by the Campaign Finance Reform Act.

Corporations have been donating to politicians thru Political Action Committees since General Grant was president, the only difference is now we can actually see how is donating to whom, which is good.

Now don't let obama mis-speak to you,,,,,,,,NO Foreign Corporations can legally donate to politicians.

corporations can not legally cast a vote, because that would be giving those that direct the corporation a share in a second vote. So, those people would have 1.X votes against the average Americans simply 1.0 votes. It is unconstitutional for any one American's vote to count for more than any other American's. So, obviously, there are some rights corporations can not have that individuals can. That is not to say however that there are no rights that overlap.

No.

They should get more.

Typically received more than the common citizen. About 7 years ago it was declared that money was a form of free speech.

In the Fourth Constitutional Convention under Madison it was declared that the opulent minority had to protect itself against the angry majority.

There were no poor men who signed the Declaration of Independence.

Business is business.

There is one kind of corporation that has always had an unfair advantage in steering politics...the media. It's no small coincidence that GE received $$$Billions in stimulus money. They even had one of their pundits on the air telling people who to vote for up until the polls closed in Massachusetts. The SCOTUS just leveled the playing field.

I don't think it should. However, the Supreme Court has ruled on this and found that it has a legal right as a person under I think the 14th Amendment.

So, to challenge it, it would require a Constitutional Amendment.

nice try at a straw man argument, coupled with the usual left-wing hyperbole...a corporation is a group of individuals who voluntarily come together for a common interest-should a group of individuals be denied free speech rights that single individuals enjoy?

and corporations are subject to taxation and regulation; shouldn't they, as taxpayers, be permitted to express their political views and to speak out on issues that effect them? cbs, nbc, abc, npr, pbs, cnn, washington post, ny times...all are corporate entities, or arms of corporate entities-yet they enjoy constitutional rights to free speech, protection from unreasonable search and seizure, etc...do you propose these rights be restricted as well? after all, what with such acts as using obviously forged documents to attempt to influence a presidential election (cbs) and rigging up vehicles to explode in order to defame a manufacturer (nbc), not to mention the phony stories published by the nytimes (jayson blair), the 'appearance of corruption would be obvious'...why is the Left so addicted to attempts to restrict speech? is it the whole 'my argument is too weak to withstand an opposing view' thing, or the general tendency of 'progressives' to be control freaks?

Blame the liberals. Chief Justice Warren Burger's court decided this issue 31 years ago:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_National_Bank_o...

The more recent decision, Citizens United v. FEC, resolved a distinction between commercial speech and private speech. It did not award Corporations free speech - - that was done a long time ago.

You are comparing apples to rocks. Congress shall make no Law Abridging Freedom of speech! It does not say ONLY for people.

What are people afraid of? I have no problem if a union or corp. wants to run an ad for or against a person. I decide for myself. An ad does not force anyone to vote a certain way

Your question begs the absurd. Marrying and voting are things that are physically impossible to do for a corporation. Free speech is not.