We the Corporations: How American Businesses Won Their Civil Rights - Adam Winkler Audiobook
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Business
Capitalism
Corporations
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We the Corporations chronicles the astonishing story of one of the most successful yet least well-known “civil rights movements” in American history. Hardly oppressed like women and minorities, business corporations, too, have fought since the nation’s earliest days to gain equal rights under the Constitution—and today have nearly all the same rights as ordinary people.
Exposing the historical origins of Citizens United and Hobby Lobby, Adam Winkler explains how those controversial Supreme Court decisions extending free speech and religious liberty to corporations were the capstone of a centuries-long struggle over corporate personhood and constitutional protections for business. Beginning his account in the colonial era, Winkler reveals the profound influence corporations had on the birth of democracy and on the shape of the Constitution itself. Once the Constitution was ratified, corporations quickly sought to gain the rights it guaranteed. The first Supreme Court case on the rights of corporations was decided in 1809, a half-century before the first comparable cases on the rights of African Americans or women. Ever since corporations have waged a persistent and remarkably fruitful campaign to win an ever-greater share of individual rights.
Although corporations never marched on Washington, they employed many of the same strategies of more familiar civil rights struggles: civil disobedience, test cases, and novel legal claims made in a purposeful effort to reshape the law. Indeed, corporations have often been unheralded innovators in constitutional law, and several of the individual rights Americans hold most dear were first secured in lawsuits brought by businesses.
Winkler enlivens his narrative with a flair for storytelling and a colorful cast of characters: among others, Daniel Webster, America’s greatest advocate, who argued some of the earliest corporate rights cases on behalf of his business clients; Roger Taney, the reviled Chief Justice, who surprisingly fought to limit protections for corporations—in part to protect slavery; and Roscoe Conkling, a renowned politician who deceived the Supreme Court in a brazen effort to win for corporations the rights added to the Constitution for the freed slaves. Alexander Hamilton, Teddy Roosevelt, Huey Long, Ralph Nader, Louis Brandeis, and even Thurgood Marshall all played starring roles in the story of the corporate rights movement.
In this heated political age, nothing can be timelier than Winkler’s tour de force, which shows how America’s most powerful corporations won our most fundamental rights and turned the Constitution into a weapon to impede the regulation of big business.
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This post has 10 comments with rating of 3.7/5
September 3rd, 2021
Superbio, krisko.
September 3rd, 2021
Yeah, “persons” and my arse is a person too.
September 3rd, 2021
Citizens United was the final nail in the coffin for Joe Six Pack.
September 3rd, 2021
This is moot point and a red herring. Without “artificial personhood” governments and society wouldn’t work at it’s current state. Do some research.
September 3rd, 2021
This is moot point and a red herring. Without “artificial personhood” governments and society wouldn’t work. Do some research.
September 3rd, 2021
Well, in the American context, I don’t think that’s the point. Traditional corporate/artificial personality is uncontroversial; this construct enables the business to trade, own property, sue & be sued, etc. Like a natural person.
The difficulty lies in the extension of the original concept, into, for inst, the sphere of free speech/political speech by corporations, allowing them disproportionate, undue influence. Particularly in cases where lucre is filthy speech.
September 3rd, 2021
“I will believe that corporations deserve civil rights when I see one hanged in Texas hang one” A quote I saw somewhere.
September 3rd, 2021
Shouldn’t this be Bought Faux Civil Rights instead of Won Their Civil Rights?
September 4th, 2021
This is about corporations, not businesses in general. And America functioned fine without the modern corporation, which is very very different from the transitory arrangement which used to constitute the corporation. (As I recall from my hst courses. I have not yet read this book. But I do know that caesar693 is making an artificial separation, one which many libertarians and neoliberal Democrats in in the U.S. are fond of making.
September 4th, 2021
The issue lies in the undue & unwelcome extension of the classic company law position (as expressed in Salomon v Salomon - on separate legal personality) - giving inappropriate power to corporations over in the US. I’m not sure of the point you’re making?
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