Bibliograph

We the corporations, how American businesses won their civil rights, Adam Winkler

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We the corporations, how American businesses won their civil rights, Adam Winkler

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

We the corporations

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

1008769427

Responsibility statement

Adam Winkler

Sub title

how American businesses won their civil rights

Summary

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

Table Of Contents

Introduction : Are corporations people? -- In the beginning, America was a corporation -- The first corporate rights case -- The corporation's lawyer -- The conspiracy for corporate rights -- The corporate criminal -- Property, not politics -- Discrete and insular corporations -- Corporations, race, and civil rights -- The corporation's justice -- The triumph of corporate rights -- Conclusion : Corporate rights and wrongs -- Chronology of corporate rights

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