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Can Corporations be charged and convicted of Treason?


The 1886 Santa Clara Decision gave Corporations the same rights and protections affforded prior to this only to We the People, ie. American people. Even those in the 14th amendment.
If outsourcing and the transfering of American technology abroad can be shown to shred the Sociol Fabric of the Nation as well as its economic security, can corporations be prosecuted as any individual could for Treason? For undermining the Security of the Nations Sociol fabric for profit?

A corporation can be charged with any crimes. However, as they are not natural persons, they can only be fined. Consequently, criminal prosecutions are often not followed and, when issued, are generally settled for a civil forfeiture. The exception is for a company where the conviction of a crime disqualifies them from business. For example, when the accounting firms in the Enron case were convicted, it meant they were no longer eligable to perform audits on any company doing business with the US Government and put them out of business.

Corporations can only be sued for monetary damages by an injured party, and if it goes bankrupt due to a high settlement that it is unable to pay, it's essentially capital punishment for the corporation. Individual executives and employees can be charged with crimes, not the entire company. What are you going to do, throw the company's secretaries, food workers and janitors, the property and the building into jail too?

IF a corporation were to satisfy the EXTREMELY strict requirements for the crime of treason, then it's theoretically possible for the corporation to be tried and punished for treasonous acts. The corporation is, legally, an entity separate from the operators... it is, for all practical purposes -- a person without a heartbeat.

There goes every big store in the country. Regardless of whether you like WalMart or not, they are the biggest employer (outside of government) in the USA. Much of our food is imported now, which accounts for a lot of outbreaks. OTOH, what you say is true.

If not they damn well should be, because that would bring all this crap to a screeching halt.

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