Considering the book was published a few years ago, is it wise, now, to try to push the issue before the current Supreme Court with its latest corporate friendly appointments? Seems a good way to get the headnotes error actually written into the fourteenth amendment for real.
Posts: 15 | Location: Chicago, IL | Registered: 30 March 2006
I have two questions regarding this book: First, why was this problem not addressed during FDR's presidency, when it would seem the public attention was at its peak (this was also about the time when the "Republican Conspiracy" about the drafting of the 14th Amendment was floated about, according to the book.) Second, how did Teddy Roosevelt get the Tillman Act passed when by that time it appeared that the full spectrum of corporate rights were in full effect, i.e. it would seem the Tillman Act would have failed any court challenge.
Posts: 12 | Location: Los Angeles | Registered: 08 July 2007
Originally posted by AmyCarter: I have two questions regarding this book: First, why was this problem not addressed during FDR's presidency, when it would seem the public attention was at its peak (this was also about the time when the "Republican Conspiracy" about the drafting of the 14th Amendment was floated about, according to the book.) Second, how did Teddy Roosevelt get the Tillman Act passed when by that time it appeared that the full spectrum of corporate rights were in full effect, i.e. it would seem the Tillman Act would have failed any court challenge.
The public kind of demanded corporations be removed from politics. They'd had enough and weren't complacent sheep regarding this. They hadn't been brainwashed that "what's good for corporations is good for the U.S.A".
Personhood for corporations really made the Tillman Act irrelevant and undid every state law related to it once it was challenged. The political rights of corporations weren't challenged until after FDR.
Corporations do need "partial personhood" in order for them to be challenged in the courts for wrong-doing. Personhood broadened to extend them civil rights that include the right of free speech in the political process is an abomination and has led right back to the corruption the Tillman Act attempted to address.
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