Corperations are people, my friend - Agree or Disagree?

[Mr Downtown]

I don't know how this concept has gotten so twisted in popular discussion. Corporations have always been legal "persons" in the sense that they can undertake actions, be held responsible for them, and have duties. And there's nothing new or novel about the First Amendment applying to them. Even the Framers would have expected a newspaper published by a corporation to have freedom of the press, would have expected a corporation's disputes to be heard in the courts, would have expected its offices and papers to be free from unreasonable searches and seizures, would have expected the government to compensate it when taking its property for public use.