How Did Corporation Become Citizens?

               How did corporation become citizens? Corporations became equal overnight in 1886. They were granted corporations privilege that looked more and more like rights. The Bill of Rights has been explicitly applied to corporations. In 1886 Santa Clara County v. Southern Pacific Railroad did in fact conclude that “Corporations are persons.” The court never stated this it was added by the reporter who wrote the introduction to the decision a commentary called a head note.( a small piece of paper stapled to the top of another paper). The Supreme Court acknowledged that corporations were recognized as persons for purposes of the Fourteenth Amendment. Some critics of corporate person hood, however, most outstandingly author Thom Hartmann in his book "Unequal Protection: The Rise of Corporate Dominance and the Theft of Human Rights," claim that this was an intentional misunderstanding of the case inserted into the Court record by reporter J.C. Bancroft Davis.

                  Citizens must become the masters of corporations or they will become slaves to corporate power. Corporation’s collection of wealth, political influence and legal protections has far surpassed those available to citizens. Corporations have seized citizen’s contract with their elected representatives so that government primarily serve corporate interests rather than those of citizens. People must reclaim their rights and their government by demanding from legislators a regulatory background that will reaffirm the dominance of people and the welfare of society. Citizens need to regain the power to exclude corporations from the political process, hold management and shareholders responsible for corporate actions and terminate corporate existence and detain management for repeated or grievous breaches of the law.