Either one would do the trick. Issue corporate charters for only a specific term of existence, perhaps ten or twenty years. Initiate new limits on corporate activities. This is just a sampling of some of the options open to us. Most of the obstacles we face are in the arena of judge-made law, but historic legislation and constitutional provisions offer us a solid body of favorable precedents.
Much debate lies ahead.
But it is high time we shifted the controversy from whether we control corporations to how we do so. The sky's the limit. Jane Anne Morris is a corporate anthropologist working on corporation issues as part of Democracy Unlimited of Wisconsin Cooperative.