j.c. bancroft davis who with a stroke of his quill undid the intentions of our founders and set the nation down the road of corporatocracy please help us spread the truth about what really happened in that fateful court case in one thousand nine hundred six and to put an end to corporate personhood and bus stop this ruthless takeover of our democracy that's the big picture for tonight for more information on the stories we covered as our web sites of thom hartmann dot com and archie dot com entire show is available for free cast on i tunes also check out our youtube page youtube dot com slash the big picture artsy and don't forget democracy begins with you get out there get active show up bag your it sumanda.

j.c. bancroft davis was a very wealthy and powerful man some of the former governor of massachusetts former president of the new newburgh and new york railroad and apparently good buddies with all the other railroad billionaires keep in mind at that time these guys were the bill gates's of their day they were literally the richest woman in the world. now one of the things that supreme court reporters do in addition to chronicling the case is to write a cliff notes version of the case this short summary has no legal standing whatsoever it's just there to make it easier for lawyers to find in the future when they're looking for a case it's called ahead but bizarrely in this case mr davis the court clerk decided to put a poetic license in his ad note while the case did not decide that corporations are persons in fact of anything or rejected the notion for the fifth time in as many years bancroft in his cliff notes version in his his head no he wrote quote the defendant corporations are persons within the intent of the clause in section one of the fourteenth amendment to the united states which