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1st amendment rights only apply to the government.



No one is claiming that it's illegal. People can give up their rights as long as it's voluntary. It's generally seen as wrong or socially unacceptable to require that though.


And government grants corporate charters. They, and we need to remember this fact.

And, corporations can be unmade as a punishment.


Do you have a legal precedent to point to? The Bill of Rights (the first 10 amendments to the constitution) didn't even apply to state governments until the 14th amendment.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incorporation_of_the_Bill_of_Ri...


> Do you have a legal precedent to point to?

For revoking corporate charter? Every jurisdiction which grants them also already reserves the power to revoke them. E.g., Delaware: http://codes.lp.findlaw.com/decode/8/1/X/284


For revoking a corporate charter for violating a customer or partner's 1st amendment rights.


What precedent would one need?

You ask the government for a license to incorporate. You pay some money to facilitate this incorporation.

This is no different than a drivers license. The gov't can say yea or nay to that under criterion they decide.




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