Book ID: CBB665728432

We the corporations : how American businesses won their civil rights (2019)

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Traces the two-hundred-year history of corporate America's battle to achieve constitutional freedom from federal control, examining the civil rights debates and key events that shaped the controversial 2010 Supreme Court decision to extend constitutional protections to businesses. -- Provided by publisher. In this groundbreaking portrait of corporate seizure of political power, We the Corporations reveals how American businesses won equal rights and transformed the Constitution to serve the ends of capital. Corporations-like minorities and women-have had a civil rights movement of their own, and now possess nearly all the same rights as ordinary people. Uncovering the deep historical roots of Citizens United, Adam Winkler shows how that controversial 2010 Supreme Court decision was the capstone of a two-hundred-year battle over corporate personhood and constitutional protections for business. Bringing to resounding life the legendary lawyers and justices involved in the corporate rights movement-among them Daniel Webster, Roger Taney, Lewis Powell, and even Thurgood Marshall-Winkler's tour de force exposes how the nation's most powerful corporations gained our most fundamental rights and turned the Constitution into a bulwark against the regulation of big business. (Publisher)

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Essay Review Laura Phillips Sawyer (Summer 2021) Review Essay: From Property Rights to Liberty Rights: We the Corporations, A Review Essay. Business History Review (pp. 335-340). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Brian R. Cheffins
Parker, Traci
Asay, Jeff S.
Nicholas Lehmann
Marcia Chatelain
Veevers, David
Concepts
Business history
Business enterprises
Corporations
Civil rights
African Americans
Corporation law
Time Periods
20th century
21st century
19th century
Places
United States
Japan
Germany
Europe
Institutions
McDonald's Corporation
Hobby Lobby (Firm)
Koninklijke Nederlandsche Petroleum Maatschappij (Royal Dutch-Shell - firm)
William Sellers
Morgan Stanley
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