Shannon Sankey Source 4

What makes a corporation a person?

• Ripken, Susanna K. "Corporations are People Too: A Multi-Dimensional Approach to the Corporate Personhood Puzzle." Fordham Journal of Corporate & Financial Law15.1 (2009): 97. Web.

This article proposes an argument that shows how and why corporations should be considered as people. This article poses two different sides of the argument, some say that a corporation is a legal entity that fail and succeed on their own accord. The other side of the argument says that a corporation is more than just a legal entity, it is all the people that work for the corporation and invest their time and money into them. The argument is that a corporation was created by people through a mutual agreement. The corporation can not actually act or speak, but the people who make up the corporation can and without them the corporation would not exist. But the article then brings up a conversations as it explains that people can come and go from a corporation without it affecting its efficiency and work, they claim that this make corporations more than a person and shouldn't be granted the same rights. But the argument for corporate personhood is that they represent the people that work for them and they are meant to represent the public good, because of this they should have all of the rights extended to them.

This article brings up a lot of interesting points and helps me put it into conversation with my other articles. The arguments for and against corporate personhood can be put into stasis with each other, but I don't have any answers to my previous questions about how corporate personhood affects politics.  Honestly, I have no idea where this paper is going for me. I started out with corporate personhood that effects religion and has first amendment rights, then I move onto corporate lobbying and how first amendment rights affect politics concerning corporations. Now I am back to the pros and cons of corporations having personhood.

Putting this into conversation with my other articles would look something like explaining how this is the argument for corporate personhood and my other articles would be why corporations should not be considered people. I would also put this into conversation with my last article explaining why corporations would want to be involved with politics. 

I have to find a question for my thesis statement, I really have no idea what I am trying to argue here.