We the Corporations: How American Businesses Won Their Civil Rights

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We the Corporations chronicles the revelatory story of one of the successful, yet least known, “civil rights movements” in American history.

On 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 very own, and now possess nearly all of the same rights as bizarre other folks. Uncovering the deep historical roots of Citizens United, Adam Winkler shows how that controversial 2010 Supreme Court decision was once 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 within the corporate rights movement―among them Daniel Webster, Roger Taney, Lewis Powell, or even Thurgood Marshall―Winkler’s tour de force exposes how the nation’s so much powerful corporations gained our so much fundamental rights and turned the Constitution into a bulwark against the regulation of big business. 50 illustrations

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