| yanamaster said: huh, intersting view point. In Poland a corporation is an entity that acts in in the name of the people founding the corporation and possess a legal status allowing it to carry out business. |
My understanding is that it is largely the same in the United States, in that the corporation is a single, legally-distinct entity from its owner(s). To the best of my knowledge, it has always been treated as such. However, through what I believe is a mixture of oversight, tradition, and at-the-time pragmatism, the corporation in America is legally treated under the law as a (single, distinct, and separate) person, albeit not a natural person.
Note that I said "treated under the law." Not "held as under the Constitution."
Since it is a person, legally speaking, the Supreme Court has held that it is afforded some of the protections of the Consitution, most notably the Fourteenth Amendment.
I concede that I am not an expert on this matter, and may be wrong, which is why I requested clarification rather than challenged the statement. However, I am more confident than not that the above is true and correct.
