"... We developed the Corporate Personhood Ordinance, which focuses not just on corporate Bill
"... We developed the Corporate Personhood Ordinance, which focuses not just on corporate Bill of Rights protections, but also on protections conferred under the Commerce and Contracts clauses to the U.S. Constitution... Over the past six months, that Ordinance... grew from a real and practical need " the necessity of protecting self-government from federally conferred "corporate rights." "That Democracy is impossible when corporations wield constitutional rights to deny the rights of communities and people."
Source: Linzey, Thomas, Esq., Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund, April 2003