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> The only reason corporate personhood is a thing is because it allows corporate lawyers to pick from a bigger pool of personal rights in a perversion of the spirit of these original rights.

Not at all. It allows corporations to own property, enter contracts and appear as a plaintiff or defendant in lawsuits. Without legal personhood it could do none of these.

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> It allows corporations to own property, enter contracts and appear as a plaintiff or defendant in lawsuits.

And yet these things do basically go all the way back to the Roman empire, and I'm sure the extent and privileges of corporate personhood have been litigated once or twice since then. If you disagree that

> corporate lawyers would like to pick from a bigger pool of personal rights in a perversion of the spirit of these original rights.

then what do you think they were working on?

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