We the corporations
Subtitle: how American businesses won their civil rights
By: Adam Winkler
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Liveright Publishing Corporation, a Division of W. W. Norton & Co.
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 471
ISBN-13: 9780871407122
Subjects: Civil rights of corporations
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 405-444) and index.
Table of contents: title: Chronology of corporate rights; title: Introduction : are corporations people?; title: In the beginning, America was a corporation; title: The origins of corporate rights; title: The corporation's lawyer; title: The conspiracy for corporate rights; title: The corporate criminal; title: Property, not politics; title: Discrete and insular corporations; title: Corporations, race, and civil rights; title: The corporation's justice; title: The triumph of corporate rights; title: Conclusion : corporate rights and wrongs.