We the corporations : how American businesses won their civil rights / Adam Winkler.
2018
KF1386.C58 W56 2018 (Mapit)
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We the corporations : how American businesses won their civil rights / Adam Winkler.
Edition
First edition.
Imprint
New York : Liveright Publishing Corporation, a Division of W. W. Norton & Company, [2018]
Description
xxiv, 471 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Formatted Contents Note
Introduction : Are corporations people?
In the beginning, America was a corporation
The first corporate rights case
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
Chronology of corporate rights.
In the beginning, America was a corporation
The first corporate rights case
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
Chronology of corporate rights.
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.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Location
STA
Call Number
KF1386.C58 W56 2018
Language
English
ISBN
9780871407122 hardcover
0871407124 hardcover
0871407124 hardcover
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