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How Did American Businesses Win Their Constitutional Rights?


We the Corporations: How American Businesses Won Their Civil ...

A landmark exposé and “deeply engaging legal history” of one of the most successful, yet least known, civil rights movements in American history.

Landmark Supreme Court Cases | Brennan Center for Justice

Congress passed legislation and constitutional amendments to enshrine evolving notions of equality into law. And the Supreme Court helped drive ...

To Secure These Rights | Harry S. Truman

Now, THEREFORE, by virtue of the authority vested in me as President of the United States by the Constitution and the statutes of. the United States, it is ...

Reconstructing Citizenship

The 14th Amendment to the Constitution is one of the nation's most important laws relating to citizenship and civil rights.

The Constitution | The White House

... was the lack of an enumeration of basic civil rights in the Constitution. ... Bill of Rights contains rights that many today consider to be fundamental to America ...

History - Brown v. Board of Education Re-enactment

... the Constitution of the United States cannot put them upon the same plane. ... The six-member majority stated that since law school for Black students did ...

History of the Federal Use of Eminent Domain - Department of Justice

It requires no constitutional recognition; it is an attribute of sovereignty.” Boom Co. v. Patterson, 98 U.S. 403, 406 (1879). ... See Bauman v.

Frankenstein's Baby: The Forgotten History of Corporations, Race ...

Southern Pacific Railroad, a case credited with extending equal protection rights to corporations. This is the first Article to juxtapose these ...

The Fourteenth Amendment - U.S. Constitution - FindLaw

The Fourteenth Amendment, ratified during the Reconstruction Era, gives Americans a bundle of rights, including birthright citizenship, equal protection, and ...

The Fourteenth Amendment Due Process Clause | Constitution Center

When it was adopted, the Clause was understood to mean that the government could deprive a person of rights only according to law applied by a court. Yet since ...

5 Reasons We Need an Amendment to Say Corporations Aren't ...

In a series of decisions over the past 40 years, the Supreme Court has radically expanded Constitutional rights for corporations. Perhaps its ...

LII US Constitution 14th Amendment - Legal Information Institute

The Fourteenth Amendment addresses many aspects of citizenship and the rights of citizens. The most commonly used -- and frequently litigated -- phrase in ...

We the Corporations – How American Businesses Won Their Civil ...

Once the Constitution was ratified, corporations quickly sought to gain the rights it guaranteed. The first Supreme Court case on the rights of corporations was ...

ArtIV.S2.C1.6 Corporations and Privileges and Immunities Clause

An annotation about Article IV, Section 2, Clause 1 of the Constitution of the United States ... the Privileges and Immunities Clause does not protect ...

10 Supreme Court rulings--before Hobby Lobby - Mother Jones

... corporations the same religious rights as real people. The rationale behind the decision—that expanding constitutional rights to businesses is ...

3. TIMELINE ON CORPORATE PERSONHOOD - Public Citizen

related to their rights conferred by the state in their charters, individual citizens' substantive rights do not extend to corporations.5 Corporations are ...

The Lost Constitutional Stakes of Labor Unions | ACS

v. United States, invalidated the National Industrial Recovery Act, a law with clear analogues to the NLRA. Wagner acted in the middle of a ...

June 13, 1866: 14th Amendment Passed - Zinn Education Project

Supposedly, the Amendment had been passed to protect Negro rights, but of the Fourteenth Amendment cases brought before the Supreme Court between 1890 and 1910, ...

The Constitutional Standing of Corporations

As Justice Frankfurter famously remarked, “The history of American constitutional law in no small measure is the history of the impact of the modern corporation ...

How to Apply the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution and the ...

To achieve health equity, governments can use a variety of tools, including civil rights legislation and constitutional jurisprudence. In the United States, 2 ...