Unequal Protection — How Corporations Gained Constitutional Rights
How did corporations come to possess constitutional protections, and what does that transformation reveal about the relationship between economic power and democratic government?
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In Unequal Protection: How Corporations Became “People”—and How You Can Fight Back, Thom Hartmann traces the historical expansion of corporate constitutional protections and questions whether the modern legal position of corporations reflects the democratic purposes for which these institutions were originally created.
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