We the corporations : how American businesses won their civil rights / Adam Winkler.
2018
346.73066 W775w 2018
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Title
We the corporations : how American businesses won their civil rights / Adam Winkler.
Author
Edition
First edition.
ISBN
9780871407122 (hardcover)
0871407124 (hardcover)
0871407124 (hardcover)
Published
New York, NY : Liveright Publishing Corporation, a Division of W.W. Norton & Company, [2018]
Language
English
Description
xxiv, 471 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Call Number
346.73066 W775w 2018
System Control No.
(OCoLC)1008769427
(OCoLC)1008769427
(OCoLC)1008769427
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. -- Provided by publisher.
In this groundbreaking portrait of corporate seizure of political power, We the Corporations reveals how American businesses won equal rights and transformed the Constitution to serve the ends of capital. Corporations-like minorities and women-have had a civil rights movement of their own, and now possess nearly all the same rights as ordinary people. Uncovering the deep historical roots of Citizens United, Adam Winkler shows how that controversial 2010 Supreme Court decision was the capstone of a two-hundred-year battle over corporate personhood and constitutional protections for business. Bringing to resounding life the legendary lawyers and justices involved in the corporate rights movement-among them Daniel Webster, Roger Taney, Lewis Powell, and even Thurgood Marshall-Winkler's tour de force exposes how the nation's most powerful corporations gained our most fundamental rights and turned the Constitution into a bulwark against the regulation of big business. -- Provided by publisher.
In this groundbreaking portrait of corporate seizure of political power, We the Corporations reveals how American businesses won equal rights and transformed the Constitution to serve the ends of capital. Corporations-like minorities and women-have had a civil rights movement of their own, and now possess nearly all the same rights as ordinary people. Uncovering the deep historical roots of Citizens United, Adam Winkler shows how that controversial 2010 Supreme Court decision was the capstone of a two-hundred-year battle over corporate personhood and constitutional protections for business. Bringing to resounding life the legendary lawyers and justices involved in the corporate rights movement-among them Daniel Webster, Roger Taney, Lewis Powell, and even Thurgood Marshall-Winkler's tour de force exposes how the nation's most powerful corporations gained our most fundamental rights and turned the Constitution into a bulwark against the regulation of big business. -- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 405-444) and index.
Formatted Contents Note
Introduction: Are corporations people?
Part 1. Corporate origins. In the beginning, America was a corporation
Part 2. The birth of corporate rights. The first corporate rights case ; The corporation's lawyer
Part 3. Property rights, not liberty rights. The conspiracy for corporate rights ; The corporate criminal ; Property, not politics
Part 4. The rise of liberty rights for corporations. 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.
Part 1. Corporate origins. In the beginning, America was a corporation
Part 2. The birth of corporate rights. The first corporate rights case ; The corporation's lawyer
Part 3. Property rights, not liberty rights. The conspiracy for corporate rights ; The corporate criminal ; Property, not politics
Part 4. The rise of liberty rights for corporations. 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.
Awards
National Book Award finalist, 2018.
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