Supreme Court lifts limits on corporate campaign donations

[bluestarultor]

Originally Posted by Smarty McBarrelpants

But then again I could use similiar arguments to argue we should eliminate the jews or the poor or the middle class.

Relying on authority, especially incredibly outdated authority with a completely different environment than today, is a ridiculous strategy. Make actual arguments .

While I won't disagree with this, that's why I pulled a logical appeal of money disparity at the beginning and then personalized it into an emotional appeal at the end.

Besides, it's a letter, not a paper. I COULD have written a paper (although that's not what the assignment was), but a letter is a bit less stringent. You'll notice I also linked those authorities into the concept of a betrayal of America, the people, and all the great men who built our country.

[Premmy]

You'll notice I also linked those authorities into the concept of a betrayal of America, the people, and all the great men who built our country.

That's kind of what we're talking about.

[Professor Smarmiarty]

Yeah, you still going back to the same shit I had a problem with in the first place.

[Azisien]

Yeah in grade 9 history class we learned that slaves built America, has this changed? I mean yeah a bunch of white dudes ordered things but they didn't actually build all that much.

[bluestarultor]

Okay. I'll concede. On the other hand, even if they didn't lift a finger, it still shows a lot of precedent.


Actually, I'm not going to argue much on my content. I threw this together in one day and it probably could be better, but it's heartfelt and has some support, which is more than most of my classmates can say.


You can say what you want about the views coming from outdated times, but I think we can all agree having corporations choosing the people to place in the government is kind of like telling a fox to guard a chicken coop.

[Azisien]

We wuz just kidding Blues! It's a fine letter.

I mean come on, it's not like Smarty or Prem could produce a letter of similar length that's half as good. Or can you?

[Loyal]

Half the things we do these days are grounded firmly in rhetoric and appeal to "what matters".

Blues' letter is fine. :P

[Professor Smarmiarty]

It used to be my job to criticise assignments like this so I hope I could do better. That's what we told the people I was marking anyway. An unproven entity.

[Kepor]

You could argue that corporate personhood is a legal fiction initially brought about for the purpose of simplification rather than actually making corporations people, that because corporations are groups of people and not people themselves allowing corporate donations is effectively allowing a few people more of a say than others.

But whatever, I think your letter's fine as it is.

[bluestarultor]

Originally Posted by Kepor

You could argue that corporate personhood is a legal fiction initially brought about for the purpose of simplification rather than actually making corporations people, that because corporations are groups of people and not people themselves allowing corporate donations is effectively allowing a few people more of a say than others.

But whatever, I think your letter's fine as it is.

I think I might have covered that in an oblique way.

Thanks for the feedback, guys. Hopefully, despite sending it with a typo, it still gets a strong message across to my Congressmen.