People keep saying that the Supreme Court ruled, in the Citizens United case, that corporations are people. No one has ever actually produced a quote from the court's opinion suggesting so.
In fact, the ruling was precisely that corporations are representations of the rights of their owners, and therefore conduits for their owners' exercise of free speech.
How cool, let's dump a bunch of downvotes on something because we disagree with one part of it.
The point was that it's interesting that American English treats a corporation as a single entity but British English treats it plurally (i.e. as a proxy for the people controlling it).
In fact, the ruling was precisely that corporations are representations of the rights of their owners, and therefore conduits for their owners' exercise of free speech.