America (tm)

To quote a past acquaintence of mine, "Corporate Personhood is a ridiculous as Person Corporatehood."

The debate is ongoing and the history long; I will restrict myself to proposing a solution to the problem, obviously revealing myself as one of those that feels "corporate entities" are not entitled to the same rights as actual, individual, human citizens. My chief reasoning is identical to that of former Veep Al Gore; corporate money poisons the well of Democratic governance. For more information, I suggest starting with Wiki, as they have a pretty good summary of the matter. Suffice that the issue has been woven togetehr by a series of really piss-poor SCOTUS decisions.

I see two possible methods of resolving the issue, one of which is simple, the other complex and neither likely to be popular among among those with the power and interest in fighting them.

In both cases, we must adopt some specific words and definitions by way of Ammendment.

In the first (simplest) case, the word to be defined is "citizen". For our purposes, the deffinition must include laguage that specifies that only American citizens have the right to petition their Representatives (to included all elected officials) and that a citizen is an individual who is or has been at least potentially capable of holding an elected office.

The other potential soluation is identical, save for the route it must follow. In this case...we must make allies with the Pro-Life lobby in establishing the definitions of life, humanity and citizenship; by doing so we must likely give up Roe v. Wade...but that is a battle that can be fought again later if need be. What matters, first and formost in this case is establishing the difference between a human being, which can be a citizen, and a non-human entity, which cannot.