To the editor:

The most recent 5-to-4 decision by the Supreme Court that corporations may contribute unlimited amounts of money to either elect or to defeat candidates for public office left me with a sick feeling.

The majority’s reasoning that the First Amendment to the Constitution protects free speech is strange. I always thought that a corporation was a legal entity — not an individual. I do not believe that the Founding Fathers or the crafters of the First Amendment thought of entities as persons whose freedom of speech must be protected.

Rolf Seitle

Langley