The Corporation

Corporations.

They have grown and evolved so much that an obvious observation here can be made: they are living beings. Actually, corporations have had the name for a long period of time now of Legal Person.

Corporations nowadays have become living organisms that must be treated, at least, almost like a Natural Person, because they have the same rights, or almost all of them. Buy and sell properties, make loans, sign contracts and even commit crimes are some of the resemblance between this two kind of people.

Nonetheless, we have to take into account that corporations cannot exist without the people that manage them and make the decisions for them. Now, there is a problem that can be attacked from two different perspectives: (1) the corporation as a legal person can be loaded with legal implications, and (2) as a living being, which in most cases it directs the company.

There must be a differentiation at the point where it marks where can the jurisdiction, area of action of the company itself, out of that line sanctions ought to be present. In first instance, punish the people behind it, and then, the corporation

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