Description acceptable. A dissent by Hugo Black argues against this doctrine to defend a California tax on reinsurance premiums. Howard Jay Graham's article "The Conspiracy Theory" accuses Roscoe Conkling of forging records of the Joint Committee on Reconstruction to support this doctrine. Justice Powell used this doctrine to extend free-speech protections in First National Bank of Boston v. (*) Bellotti. This doctrine’s reach was, for a time, limited by concerns for innocent and dissenting shareholders. Mitt Romney prominently cited this doctrine during an argument at a Iowa campaign stop a year after Citizens United. That case found that nonprofits, unions, and the organizations central to this doctrine had campaign donations covered by the First Amendment as free speech. For 10 points, name this doctrine that gives citizen-like rights to LLCs. ■END■
ANSWER: corporate personhood [or corporations are people; accept word forms; prompt on answers involving personhood for businesses & companies; don’t accept answers involving incorporation]
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