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Author	Winkler, Adam.
Title	We the corporations : how American businesses won their civil rights / Adam Winkler.
Publication Info.	New York, NY : Liveright Publishing Corporation, a Division of W.W. Norton & Company, [2018]

Location	Call No.	Status
Stack 3	347.73 W	IN LIBRARY

Edition	First edition.
Description	xxiv, 471 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 405-444) and index.
Contents	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.
Subject	Civil rights of corporations -- United States.
	Corporation law -- United States.
Added Title	How American businesses won their civil rights
ISBN	9780871407122 (hardcover)
	0871407124 (hardcover)

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