I'd also like to add:
&#62; Similarly, your computer does not have any rights, but you do have the right to post hacker news comments using your computer (provided pg lets you).<p>You're supposed to only have one account. PG gives YOU a right to post hacker news comments, not your computer. The computer is a direct representation of you. A company is a distinct entity created from the collection of people. Your analogy is faulty.<p>&#62; The charter was agreed to by all shareholders. Those who found it unacceptable chose not to buy shares.<p>Yet the charter which is agreed upon is a distinct entity concocted by human beings. At best it's a monster like frankenstein.<p>&#62;  The "company" is merely a legal facade to simplify interactions between the shareholders and other parties.<p>Yet the company is also a distinct entity.<p>Look the US government guarantees rights to individuals, not groups or corporations. Groups that come together for a common interest only amplify their voice by the collective pooling of their <i>individual</i> voices. A corporation pools those individual voices into a mob, which does something else independent of any one person's will. It's a <i>distinct</i> entity. It is not a human. It does not have rights like a citizen.<p>I can't stress this enough: the government guarantees certain right to individual people, not groups that can be arbitrarily formed.