โ Scribed by Adam Winkler
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
We the Corporations chronicles the revelatory story of one of the most successful, yet least known, "civil rights movements" in American history.
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...
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