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[yanamaster]

noname2200 said:

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.

well we are talking about the specifics of two different countries after all. the Polish constitution is not the same as the american one since the two countries developed differently over time. For instance the american constitution  gives citizens the  right to possess a fire arm while the Polish constitution makes no mention on the matter and so the topic is handled through common law.

Poland never thought on the matter, like the US did, about the existance of corporations and this topic is handled by commerce law and not by the constitution, at least as far a I remember.