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You might want to re read the constitution.

The constitution leaves qualifications for voting up to the states. If Delaware allows corporations to in certain state elections, it would follow that they’d be able to vote for congressional seats as well.

From article 1:

>The House of Representatives shall be composed of Members chosen every second Year by the People of the several States, and the Electors in each State shall have the Qualifications requisite for Electors of the most numerous Branch of the State Legislature.




This would run into 14th amendment issues (and the "one person, one vote" doctrine) pretty quickly. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wesberry_v._Sanders and it's similar cases.

Specifically, the 14th amendment's equal protection clause is seen to apply to voting rights (of which apportionment is perhaps the most unclear, but literally giving individuals multiple votes, as opposed to different weights is sort of a beyond obvious violation).


Do you honestly think the courts will decide against corporations?

You'd be more likely to tune to your local classical station and hear techno. It'd be that out of character

Go listen to the 150 or so episodes of the 5-4 podcast for lots of examples


> chosen every second Year by the People of the several States


Corporations are legal persons.




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