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We the corporations : how American businesses won their civil rights / Adam Winkler.
Lippincott Library - Reserve Desk KF1386.C58 W56 2018
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Winkler, Adam, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Civil rights of corporations--United States.
- Civil rights of corporations.
- United States.
- LAW / Legal History.
- Local Subjects:
- LAW / Legal History.
- Civil rights of corporations--United States.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- xxiv, 471 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Liveright Publishing Corporation, a Division of W.W. Norton & Company, [2018]
- 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.
- Contents:
- Introduction : Are corporations people?
- Part one. Corporate origins. In the beginning, America was a corporation
- Part two. The birth of corporate rights. The first corporate rights case
- The corporation's lawyer
- Part three. Property rights, not liberty rights. The conspiracy for corporate rights
- The corporate criminal
- Property, not politics
- Part four. The rise of liberty rights for corporations. 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 405-444) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780871407122
- 0871407124
- OCLC:
- 1008769427
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