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Corporations are not people : why they have more rights than you do and what you can do about it /
The January 2010 Supreme Court Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission decision marked a culminating victory for the legal doctrine of corporate personhood. Corporations, as legal persons, are now entitled to exercise their alleged free-speech rights in the form of campaign spending, effectiv...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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San Francisco :
Berrett-Koehler Publishers,
[2012]
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| Edición: | 1st ed. |
| Colección: | BK currents book.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo (Requiere registro previo con correo institucional) |
| Sumario: | The January 2010 Supreme Court Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission decision marked a culminating victory for the legal doctrine of corporate personhood. Corporations, as legal persons, are now entitled to exercise their alleged free-speech rights in the form of campaign spending, effectively enabling corporate domination of the electoral process. Jeffrey Clements uncovers the roots, expansion, and far-reaching effects of the strange and destructive idea, which flies in the face of not only all common sense but, Clements shows, most of American legal history, from 1787 to the 1970s. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xviii, 218 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 189-208) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781609941062 1609941063 9781609941079 1609941071 |