The best treatment of the Santa Clara case that I've seen is Jeffrey
Kaplan's "The Birth of White Corporation," in Poverty & Race. the
newsletter of the Poverty & Race Research Action Council, vol 12, no.5,
September/October, 2003. I don't know whether PRRAC makes their
newsletters available on line, but it is well worth taking a look at it.
Joel Blau
Sean Andrews wrote:
On Dec 5, 2007 1:55 PM, raghu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Dec 5, 2007 9:08 AM, Michael Perelman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Rosco Conklin said in the Santa Clara case that gave corporations personhood
based on the 14th ammendment that he
drafted the ammendment for the benefit of corporations. He was being paid by
the
railroad at the time of the case and may well have been lying.
Hi Michael,
Do you have any references for this? I have always wondered about
where the legal idea of personhood for a corporation originated.
He (Michael) has a good chapter on it in "Manufacturing Discontent"
(Ch. 4) with some good references and Thom Hartmann's "Unequal
Protection" puts this in a longer historical context. The key
discussion of the Santa Clara case is in Ch. 6 of that book.
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