Robert Gardner: Not one corporation-one vote

George Will’s Feb. 15 column “The progressives’ itch to regulate speech” supported the U.S. Supreme Court decision in Citizens United, which ruled that corporations are people and therefore entitled to vote.

In a biting and sarcastic criticism of Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s opposition, he maintained that corporations are personhoods based on English common law and therefore entitled to vote.

While historically corporations may be personhoods for some purposes, surely to apply this rule to “voting rights” would be untrue to our long-held rule, “one person-one vote.” Otherwise, one person has as many votes as the number of corporations to which he or she belongs.

This story was originally published March 6, 2016 at 1:00 PM with the headline "Robert Gardner: Not one corporation-one vote."