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    WHEREAS natural, (real) persons existed well before the creation of the artificial entity, the corporation;

    WHEREAS corporations are artificial entities created by natural persons;

    WHEREAS corporations are artificial entities created by natural persons specifically for the benefit and welfare of natural persons;

    WHEREAS the concept of "corporate personhood" was bestowed upon corporations long after the first creation of corporations within this nation;

    WHEREAS the concept of "corporate personhood" was bestowed upon corporations by the actions of a few people for the sole benefit of corporations and a few select people at the expense of all natural persons and is, therefore, illegitimate;

    WHEREAS, owing to the fact that corporations never die, whereas natural persons do, corporations have accrued over time unequal access to wealth, unequal access to power, unequal access to the commons and unequal influence over the judiciary, the legislatures, the executives of our governance;

    WHEREAS corporations do not pay their fair share of taxes but more benefits accrue to these artificial entities than to natural persons from the proceeds of our tax dollars;

    WHEREAS corporations now have more privacy rights than natural persons;

    WHEREAS corporations are not held responsible for their crimes in the same way that natural persons are held;

    WHEREAS corporations, artificial entities created for the benefit and welfare of natural persons, now do great harm, in many cases, to natural persons;

    WHEREAS the invasion and occupation of Iraq by George W. Bush was brought about for the specific benefit of corporations, at a cost of the deaths of hundreds of thousands of Iraqis, the deaths of at least 4,000 Americans and other nationals, the destruction of the infrastructure of Iraq, the near destruction of the infrastructure of the United States, the destruction of the United States military, placing great financial burdens upon the natural persons of both Iraq and the United States, destabilizing the United States dollar...:

    WHEREAS, in Bhopal, India, malfeasance by United Carbide Inc. in 1984 brought about the immediate deaths of 8,000 Indian persons, 500,000 other persons were affected, with long-term impact on the reproductive, immune and nervous systems of natural persons, poisonous breastmilk, lowered birthrates and increased birth defects, prolonged menstruation, sterility, low sperm count and repeated miscarriages and other illnesses;

    WHEREAS there are many other instances of artificial entity malfeasance which has caused the deaths and incredible suffering of natural persons;

    THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the Democratic Party as a champion of natural persons act to protect these same natural persons from the malfeasance and evils done by artificial entities;

    BE IT RESOLVED that artificial entities which cause death or great suffering to natural persons be instantly dissolved and the assets of these artificial entities shall be distributed amongst survivors and sufferers;

    AND BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the concept of corporate personhood be stricken from the laws of the United States.