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Originally Posted by JPhillips
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One of the more interesting aspect of this for me is how it would open the door to foreign funding of campaigns. Corporations are now international entities regardless of where they are based. What's to stop a foreigner or a foreign government from incorporating in the US and then anonymously pouring money in to a favored campaign?
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From other threads, a lot of people seem to think that foreign terrorists have constitutional rights. Shouldn't those same people think foreign entities have a constitutional right to free speach?
And lots of people want to prosecute corporations criminally, which of course means that corporations have certain constitutional rights in that process. But do we only give them rights associated with criminal procedure, and restrict them from others we don't want them to have (like free speech)?
If we just mix and match and pick and choose who has which constitutional right, based on how desirable the outcome is, what does the constitution matter?