Groups are merely collections of people.....
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A corporation is a group of people that do have individual rights. They can choose to exercise those rights as a group.
True, but that doesn't imply that a group itself should have similar rights independent of the members.
Show me in the Constitution - or in any amendment - where such an idea can be derived.
In looking just at the amendments, I see many references to rights granted to person(s)/people:
"...right of the people peaceably to assemble..."
"The right of the people to be secure in their persons..."
"No person shall be held to answer..."
"...nor shall any person be subject..."
"The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people."
"The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states respectively, or to the people."
"All persons born or naturalized...are citizens of the United States.... nor shall any state deprive any person of life, liberty, or property...nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws."
Nothing much said in there nor implied about collections or groups of people. (Save the Senate and House.)
Now I grant that we (the People) can grant collections... groups... businesses... corporations... certain rights and responsibilities - as well we should. But nothing in Constitutional Law states that the rights of a collection... group... business... etc.... trumps the rights of a person.
The day that the Constitution acknowledges a corporation over an individual, I'll leave this land for a free country.
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True, but that doesn't imply that a group itself should have similar rights independent of the members.
Show me in the Constitution - or in any amendment - where such an idea can be derived.
In looking just at the amendments, I see many references to rights granted to person(s)/people:
"...right of the people peaceably to assemble..."
"The right of the people to be secure in their persons..."
"No person shall be held to answer..."
"...nor shall any person be subject..."
"The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people."
"The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states respectively, or to the people."
"All persons born or naturalized...are citizens of the United States.... nor shall any state deprive any person of life, liberty, or property...nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws."
Nothing much said in there nor implied about collections or groups of people. (Save the Senate and House.)
Now I grant that we (the People) can grant collections... groups... businesses... corporations... certain rights and responsibilities - as well we should. But nothing in Constitutional Law states that the rights of a collection... group... business... etc.... trumps the rights of a person.
The day that the Constitution acknowledges a corporation over an individual, I'll leave this land for a free country.