Corporations Are Not People

by Clements, Jeffrey D.

• ISBN13: 9781609941055
• ISBN10: 1609941055
• Format: Trade Paper
• Copyright: 2011-12-24
• Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers

Summary

This is the first practical guide for every citizen on the problem of corporate personhood and the tools we have to overturn it. Jeff Clements explains why the Citizen's United case is the final win in a campaign for corporate domination of the state that began in the 1970s under Richard Nixon. More than this, Clements shows how unfettered corporate rights will impact public health, energy policy, the environment, and the justice system. Where Thom Hartmann's Unequal Protection provides a much-needed detailed legal history of corporate personhood, Corporations Are Not People answers the reader's question: "What does Citizens United mean to me?" And, even more important, it provides a solution: a Constitutional amendment, included in the book, which would reverse Citizens United. The book's ultimate goal is to give every citizen the tools and talking points to overturn corporate personhood state by state, community by community with petitions, house party kits, draft letters, shareholder resolutions, and much more.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Corporations Are Not People

Democracy Works and Corporations Fight Back

Corporations Are Not People And They Make Lousy Parents

What Are Corporations?

Corporations Don't Vote; They Don't Have To

Did Corporate Power and Crony Capitalism Destroy the Working American Economy?

Corporations Cannot Love

How We Can Restore Free Speech for People

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