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Define which "it" it was that surfaced.

That ruling said that contracts created by corporations, defined under the law explicitly as things that can enter into contracts, are legal and enforceable, and not able to be changed by the government.

This makes sense since enabling groups of people to enter into into and honoring contracts is the point of corporations. But the principle that corporations have natural liberties as persons is generally dated back to the 1880s and jurisprudence about the 14th amendment. At that point the founding fathers were all long dead, and the 14th amendment itself was added long after the founding fathers died.



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