Supreme Court is saying in effect that even if artificial entities cannot vote in an election, they can spend as much money as they like to influence the outcome of an election. However, with its January 19 (2010) decision, the majority on the Roberts U.S. No mention is made of corporations or other legal entities. Indeed, laws governing voting rights in the United States clearly establish that only “Adult citizens of the United States who are residents of one of the 50 states have the right to participate fully in the political system of the United States”. Such entities, for example, cannot vote in an election. Bills of Rights (N.B.: The first ten amendments to the United States Constitution are known as the Bill of Rights) is that this runs contrary its letter and its spirit, since it clearly states later on that "the enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people, and reserves all powers not granted to the federal government to the citizenry or States.” The words “people” and “citizenry” clearly refer here to living human beings, not to legal or artificial entities such as business corporations, labor unions, financial organizations or political lobbies. The only problem with such a wide interpretation of the U.S. Constitution says “Congress shall make no law.
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Supreme Court, ruled that legal entities, such as corporations and labor unions, have the same purely personal rights to free speech as living individuals. Indeed, in what can be labeled a most reactionary decision, the Roberts U.S. Supreme Court took it upon itself to profoundly change the U.S. Indeed, on Thursday January 21 (2010), a Republican-appointed majority on the U.S. Supreme Court, threw a different challenge to the Obama administration. On the same day, however, a nonelected body, the U.S. Such a policy should have been announced months ago, if not years ago. Two days later, President Barack Obama seemed to have understood the people's message when he announced a “Volcker rule” that will forbid large banks from owning hedge funds that make money by placing large bets against their own clients, using information that these same clients gave them. The essence of their message was: stop dithering and start governing stop trying to satisfy the bankers and please the editors of Rupert Murdoch's Wall Street Journal, and start caring for the ordinary people. On Tuesday, January 19 (2010), the Obama administration got a kick in the pants from the Massachusetts voters when they filled former Senator Ted Kennedy's seat by electing a conservative Republican candidate. “The most effective way to restrict democracy is to transfer decision-making from the public arena to unaccountable institutions: kings and princes, priestly castes, military juntas, party dictatorships, or modern corporations.” Noam Chomsky, M.I.T. “The 20th century has been characterized by three developments of great political importance: The growth of democracy, the growth of corporate power, and the growth of corporate propaganda as a means of protecting corporate power against democracy.”Alex Carey, Australian social scientist "The price of apathy towards public affairs is to be ruled by evil men."Plato, ancient Greek philosopher URL of this article: Global Research, January 22, 2010
The United States of Corporate America: From Democracy to Plutocracy