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We the corporations : how American businesses won their civil rights / Adam Winkler.

Winkler, Adam, (author.).

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  • 2 of 2 copies available at Linn Libraries Consortium. (Show)
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LBCC Albany Campus Library KF1386.C58 W56 2018 (Text) 38813001249509 Stacks Available -

Record details

  • ISBN: 9780871407122
  • ISBN: 0871407124
  • Physical Description: 471 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
  • Edition: First edition.
  • Publisher: New York : Liveright Publishing Corporation, a Division of W. W. Norton & Co., 2018.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
Chronology of corporate rights -- Introduction : are corporations people? -- In the beginning, America was a corporation -- The origins of corporate rights -- 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.
Summary, etc.:
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.

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