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    Unequal Protection: How Corporations Became ""People"" -- and How You Can Fight Back
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    Unequal Protection: How Corporations Became ""People"" -- and How You Can Fight Back
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    Unequal Protection: How Corporations Became ""People"" -- and How You Can Fight Back

    By Thom Hartmann

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    NEW EDITION, REVISED AND UPDATED Unequal taxes, unequal accountability for crime, unequal influence, unequal control of the media, unequal access to natural resources—corporations have gained these privileges and more by exploiting their legal status as persons. How did something so illogical and unjust become the law of the land? Americans have been struggling with the role of corporations since before the birth of the republic. As Thom Hartmann shows, the Boston Tea Party was actually a protest against the British East India Company—the first modern corporation. Unequal Protection tells the astonishing story of how, after decades of sensible limits on corporate power, an offhand, off-the-record comment by a Supreme Court justice led to the Fourteenth Amendment—originally passed to grant basic rights to freed slaves—becoming the justification for granting corporations the same rights as human beings. And Hartmann proposes specific legal remedies that will finally put an end to the bizarre farce of corporate personhood. This new edition has been thoroughly updated and features Hartmann’s analysis of two recent Supreme Court cases, including Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, which tossed out corporate campaign finance limits.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBerrett-Koehler Publishers, Inc.
    Release dateJun 14, 2010
    ISBN9781605098395
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    Unequal Protection: How Corporations Became ""People"" -- and How You Can Fight Back
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    Thom Hartmann

    Thom Hartmann is the host of the nationally and internationally syndicated talkshow The Thom Hartmann Program and the TV show The Big Picture on the Free Speech TV network. He is the award-winning New York Times bestselling author of 24 books, including Attention Deficit Disorder: A Different Perception, ADHD and the Edison Gene, and The Last Hours of Ancient Sunlight, which inspired Leonardo DiCaprio’s film The 11th Hour. A former psychotherapist and founder of the Hunter School, a residential and day school for children with ADHD, he lives in Washington, D.C.

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    • 3/5
      This is an impassioned book by an author who is apparently big in talk radio, though, since I don't listen to talk radio, I have never heard of him.. He says that the Supreme Court Santa Clara County v. Southern Pacific did not say that corporations were people and he is right about that since the headnote to the case has not basis in the opinion of the Court/The author says a lot of tru things in the book. He is not a lawyer, and sometimes his coimments are a bit jumbled, but in general he makes sense.