People forgot my original question, which was about gun control! (I was referring to the interpretation by the Radical Republicans, not the Supreme Court. I was talking about 1866-88, not later.) So I've changed the title.
>> I've been told that the 14th amendment to the US constitution (passed by Congress 1866, ratified 1868) was interpreted at the time as protecting the right of the freed slaves to have guns (and, by extension, for the rest of us to do so). For lawyers out there in pen-l land, is this a reasonable interpretation? << On Dec 5, 2007 12:27 PM, joel blau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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. > > > > s > > > > > -- Jim Devine / "The only difference between the Democrats and the Republicans is that the Democrats allow the poor to be corrupt, too." -- Oscar Levant
