Slavery is the Legal Fiction that a Person is Property. Corporate Personhood is the Legal Fiction that Property is a Person . Once upon a time, “corporate personhood” was merely a legal connivance that made the process of Civil Law smoother. This changed when Conservative dominated Supreme Court of the United States decided to grant the Corporations real Rights that should be reserved only for real Humans, like F reedom of Speech in 2010 with the Citizen's United Case, and Freedom of Religion in 2013 with the Hobby Lobby Case. The roots of Corporate Personhood were so simple and obvious, Corporations needed the legal power to own property, enter into contracts, sue and be sued as well as a legal mechanism to allow from succession of leadership instead of fragmentation after the Corporations leaders died and their property was divided up like more conventional capital. An essential element of Capitalism actually function is to mitigate some of the risks of doing anything cap...