They understand that a united people can easily overwhelm them and supplant them with cooperative businesses that are responsible to everyone, and not to the whims of Wall Street investors. In exchange for the charter, a corporation was obligated to obey all laws, to serve the common good, and to cause no harm. Early state legislators wrote charter laws and actual charters to limit corporate authority, and to ensure that when a corporation caused harm, they could revoke its charter. During the late 19th century, corporations subverted state governments, taking our power to put charters of incorporation to the uses originally intended. Corporations may have taken our political power but they have not taken our Constitutional soveriegn authority over government office-holders.
Every state still has legal authority to grant and revoke corporate charters.
Corporations, large or small, still must obey all laws, serve the common good, and cause no harm. To exercise our sovereign authority over corporations, we must take back our political authority over state governments. The Abolitionist recognizes the enormous power of the corporations. They own our minds because they own our communications. We recognize the power of money that was demonstrated at the O.J. Simpson trial.