Thanks to Tom Mathews for sharing the information on the myth of corporate personhood. I read the Santa Clara case some time ago, in fact 4 or 5 times, trying to find the court's holding that corporations were persons under the law. That language simply wasn't in the opinion. Indeed, it is in the reporter's headnote, but the headnotes are supposed to be summaries of what is actually in the court's opinion.

It is absolutely amazing that a reporter's headnote, with no such holding in the court's opinion, became the law of the land.

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