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Clarence Thomas Failed to Report Wife's Income

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McSpiff1/22/2011 9:43:39 pm PST

re: #291 BryanS

Who was arguing corporations are citizens?

Free speech includes the right of assembly. Why cannot an association of individuals be involved in politics just because it is an association that happens to be a business?

Freedom of association does not trump the other rights however. Including other citizens. A restriction on an association is not inherently a restriction on its individual members. The two (the association and its members) are not interchangeable. A corporation forms a firewall between itself and its members, that must work in both directions