Taking Care of Business: Citizenship and the Charter of Incorporation

[OneBlueSky]

an interesting and thorough treatise on how corporations came to usurp sovreignty from the people, and what we can do to take it back . . .

http://www.nancho.net/bigbody/chrtink1.html

The U.S. Constitution makes no mention of corporations. Yet the history of constitutional law is, as former Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter said, "the history of the impact of the modern corporation upon the American scene."

Today's business corporation is an artificial creation, shielding owners and managers while preserving corporate privilege and existence. Artificial or not, corporations have won more rights under law than people have - rights which government has protected with armed force.

Investment and production decisions that shape our communities and rule our lives are made in boardrooms, regulatory agencies, and courtrooms. Judges and legislators have made it possible for business to keep decisions about money, production, work and ownership beyond the reach of democracy. They have created a corporate system under law.

This is not what many early Americans had in mind.

- much, much more . . .

http://www.nancho.net/bigbody/chrtink1.html

[NJCher]

1. thank you, thank you, thank you

for posting this. I have been looking everywhere for it.


Cher

[ewagner]

2. I've been angry about this for some time

lot of good it does though.

There isn't anything or anybody on the horizon to reverse the course we set upon by giving corporations "personhood".

I thought it started in the 1920's but another DUer presented me with facts that showed it starting long before that. It is so deeply ingrained into our culture, I'm not sure if it can ever be overturned without tremendous economic chaos.

[OneBlueSky]

3. kick . . .

good stuff here, folks . . .