Montana approves Initiative 166: Corporations are not people!

[mamooth]

Go easy on the Republitarians. They were expecting a Romney win, which would have meant more wild-eyed judicial activists on the Supreme Court, rewriting the Constitution to make it say "money is free speech" and "corporations are people". It must to have been quite a shock to them, to have had their uber-activist dreams so brutally shattered like that.

 

[Politico]

Awesome. If anyone ever moves there I'm sure they'll appreciate it.

 

[Quantum Windbag]

Awesome. If anyone ever moves there I'm sure they'll appreciate it.

Since the only real affect it has is instructing their congressional delegation to offer an amendment to the constitution, I doubt anyone really appreciates it.

 

[LibertyLemming]

Go easy on the Republitarians. They were expecting a Romney win, which would have meant more wild-eyed judicial activists on the Supreme Court, rewriting the Constitution to make it say "money is free speech" and "corporations are people". It must to have been quite a shock to them, to have had their uber-activist dreams so brutally shattered like that.

As if the Constitution hasn't been rewritten and trampled on for the last several decades (centuries).

 

[mikegriffith1]

Go easy on the Republitarians. They were expecting a Romney win, which would have meant more wild-eyed judicial activists on the Supreme Court, rewriting the Constitution to make it say "money is free speech" and "corporations are people". It must to have been quite a shock to them, to have had their uber-activist dreams so brutally shattered like that.

This rhetoric turns reality on its head. The idea that political donations are political speech was the constitutional norm until a few decades ago when liberals began to dominate the Supreme Court. The founding fathers placed no restrictions on how much a business could donate to a campaign, and the very idea of limiting such political speech would have struck them as undemocratic.

So protecting the right of companies to donate to political campaigns would not be "activism" at all. It would be protecting the long-recognized principle that corporations have every right to participate in the political process and that political donations are a form of political speech.

 

[JakeStarkey]

Moron does not understand "corporation" as we know it today did not exist during the day of the Founders. Go do some reading, please.

James Madison said unbridled capital would lead to the fall of America.