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- From: cramer@optilink.UUCP (Clayton Cramer)
- Newsgroups: soc.history,misc.legal
- Subject: Re: Libertarians in WW2
- Message-ID: <13251@optilink.UUCP>
- Date: 18 Nov 92 18:55:08 GMT
- References: <1992Nov16.013012.21277@gordian.com> <1992Nov18.045033.11484@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>
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- In article <1992Nov18.045033.11484@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>, gsh7w@fermi.clas.Virginia.EDU (Greg Hennessy) writes:
- > In article <13221@optilink.UUCP> cramer@optilink.UUCP (Clayton Cramer) writes:
- > #Remember how the 14th Amendment
- > #was perverted to find that corporations were "persons", and therefore
- > #exempted?
- >
- > Funny, I was taught in high school that corporations were legal
- > persons from the beginning.
- >
- > -Greg Hennessy, University of Virginia
-
- They may have been so; I said nothing that indicated otherwise.
- But the decision that corporations were "persons" protected by
- the 14th Amendment is a perversion of the original legislative
- intent. I agree with the result, but that's NOT what the 14th
- Amendment was passed to do. The purpose was to protect the
- freedmen from state laws, and from the unwillingness of the
- states to enforce existing laws against the Klan and other
- thugs.
- --
- Clayton E. Cramer {uunet,pyramid}!optilink!cramer My opinions, all mine!
- "Foxes prefer rabbits with short claws." -- Nadja Adolf
-