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The legal form that one takes. One might be a [[natural person]], or a [[corporation]] of some kind - to flesh and blood, a shoddy fiction, but in the eyes of the law a very real, very worthwhile contrivance, deserving of the full protection of the constitution. | The legal form that one takes. One might be a [[natural person]], or a [[corporation]] of some kind - to flesh and blood, a shoddy fiction, but in the eyes of the law a very real, very worthwhile contrivance, deserving of the full protection of the constitution. | ||
Some, like {{author|Joel Bakan}}, argue that if [[The Corporation - Book Review|corporation]]s ''are'' persons, they are not very nice ones. Psychopaths, in fact. | |||
Corporations - companies, if you like - come in all sorts of shapes and sizes. [[LLC]]s, [[PLC]]s, [[société anonyme]]s, [[société d’investissement à capital variable]], [[segregated portfolio company|segregated portfolio companies]], [[incorporated cell company|incorporated cell companies]], and the many and splendoured varieties of [[espievie]], common and exotic, that you can find out there - shall I go on? | Corporations - companies, if you like - come in all sorts of shapes and sizes. [[LLC]]s, [[PLC]]s, [[société anonyme]]s, [[société d’investissement à capital variable]], [[segregated portfolio company|segregated portfolio companies]], [[incorporated cell company|incorporated cell companies]], and the many and splendoured varieties of [[espievie]], common and exotic, that you can find out there - shall I go on? | ||