In recent articles, I've commented about the misbehavior of corporations and suggested various responses to that misbehavior. However, it would be better to correct the misbehavior than to merely respond to it. To accomplish such change will require a careful understanding of corporations.
Understanding begins with definitions.
Here's an excerpt Bouvier's Law Dictionary, published in 1889. A body, consisting of one or more natural persons, established by law, usually for some specific purpose, and continued by a succession of members. It is this last characteristic of a corporation, sometimes called its immortality, prolonging its existence beyond the term of natural life, and thereby enabling a long-continued effort and concentration of means to the end which it was designed to answer, that constitutes its principal utility. According to Bouvier's Law Dictionary, a corporation may, within the limits of its charter or act of incorporation, lawfully do all acts that a natural person may do. This anthropomorphism of corporations is widely accepted.