While I generally agree with the article and disagree with the SCOTUS ruling, I do have to take exception to this statement:<p>&#62; However, corporations do not exist outside of government<p>If you take the "corporations are most certainly not people" position (and I do), then a corporation is an agreement between a group of people with a mutual economic interest. That's not a government creation, that's a naturally arising phenomenon. You don't need any sort of government to create a corporation, although contract law would help. But I don't think it's possible to have contracts without corporations arising naturally and organically.<p>Am I missing something? Obviously, the US has passed a lot of laws giving corporations particular rights, responsibilities, liabilities, privileges, etc. But that doesn't mean that corporations are government creations, in the same way that citizen's rights are natural right that are recognized rather than granted.