For the past few years, a lot of people have gotten their knickers in a twist over the Supreme Court and others equating corporations with people. The recent Hobby Lobby decision, the Citizen United decision, Mitt Romney pointing out that corporations are people, etc. The thing is, though, that this isn’t some recent bizarre conclusion, but settled law. Law that was settled a century and a quarter ago via the Dictionary Act of 1871 which defined “person” in Federal Law:

This wording can now be found in the US Federal Code:

1 U.S. Code § 1 – Words denoting number, gender, and so forth

the words “person” and “whoever” include corporations, companies, associations, firms, partnerships, societies, and joint stock companies, as well as individuals;

At this point, complaining “but corporations aren’t people” is pretty much exactly the same level of intellectual dumbth as “but evolution is just a theory.”