Vermont has started a movement to amend the constitution to deny corporations the same rights as natural persons.
Since the supreme court's citizens united ruling, corporations have even more rights that natural persons to influence politics. An amendment may be the only way to stop corporations from becoming über-citizens. After all, the same 14th amendment language of "person" which gives corporations free speech rights, also states that "Representatives shall be apportioned ... counting the whole number of persons in each State". The obvious implication of this is that Delaware, which has 907,135 "natural" persons and 909,000 "artificial" persons, should have twice the representation in congress that it currently has.
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