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Unequal Protection: The Rise of Corporate Dominance and the Theft of Human Rights - Thom Hartmann
Unequal Protection: The Rise of Corporate Dominance and the Theft of Human Rights
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Was the Boston Tea Party the first WTO-style protest against transnational corporations? Did Supreme Court sell out America's citizens in the nineteenth century, with consequences lasting to this day? Is there a way for American citizens to recover democracy of, by, and for the people? Thom... show more
Was the Boston Tea Party the first WTO-style protest against transnational corporations? Did Supreme Court sell out America's citizens in the nineteenth century, with consequences lasting to this day? Is there a way for American citizens to recover democracy of, by, and for the people? Thom Hartmann takes on these most difficult questions and tells a startling story that will forever change your understanding of American history. Amongst a deep historical context, Hartmann the describes the history of the Fourteenth Amendment--created at the end of the Civil War to grant basic rights to freed slaves--and how it has been used by lawyers representing corporate interests to extend additional rights to businesses far more frequently than to freed slaves. Prior to 1886, corporations were referred to in U.S. law as "artificial persons." But in 1886, after a series of cases brought by lawyers representing the expanding railroad interests, the Supreme Court ruled that corporations were "persons" and entitled to the same rights granted to people under the Bill of Rights. Since this ruling, America has lost the legal structures that allowed for people to control corporate behavior.  
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Format: paperback
ISBN: 9781605095714 (1605095710)
Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers
Pages no: 360
Edition language: English
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Sparrow
Sparrow rated it
Maybe I should wait to write this review until blood stops pouring out of my eyes, but where’s the fun in that? Skimping on exclamation points never helped anyone. I’m not going to tell you that big corporate conglomerates are the good guys; I’m not even going to tell you that I totally agree with...
A little tea, a little chat
A little tea, a little chat rated it
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A salutory lesson in the behaviour of people and what happens next. AKA unstructured rant, sorry. I want to get back to my knitting. It was the discussion here http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/178242885 that has led to it. ABE is an umbrella site for booksellers around the world to club together...
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Manny Rayner's book reviews rated it
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While I was reading Unequal Protection, I would often hear two voices. In the foreground, there was the Tim Robbins puppet from Team America: World Police:Let me explain to you how this works: you see, the corporations finance Team America, and then Team America goes out... and the corporations sit ...
Marvin's Bookish Blog
Marvin's Bookish Blog rated it
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This may be the most important book you will read in the 21st century.Thom Hartmann makes a devastatingly powerful case that corporations, mainly through establishing the status of a natural person through the court since the passage of the 14th amendment and subsequent legal cases, are now in the p...
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