The Holy Grail of conservatives is “corporate personhood.”

The “property rights” movement came close, but did not cement “corporate personhood” into US Law. The Robert‘s Court is poised to take a giant step for that "corporate personhood".
If corporations and their conservative workers on the Supreme Court and Congress have their way it will be the end of Government by the People and the beginning of Government by the Corporations.
Our Government by the People was so very hard to establish and a few conservative corporate toady's on the Supreme Court could take it away:

New York Times Editorial
The Rights of Corporations
Published: September 21, 2009

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/22/opinion/22tue1.html?_r=1&ref=opinion