Corporations are not people: reclaiming democracy from big money and global corporations
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| 505 | 8 | |a Introduction. What's at stake -- 1. American democracy works, and corporations fight back -- 2. Corporations are not people, and they make lousy parents -- 3. If corporations are not people, what are they? -- 4. Corporations don't vote; they don't have to -- 5. Did political inequality and corporate power destroy the working American economy? -- 6. Corporations can't love -- 7. Restoring democracy and republican government -- 8. Do something | |
| 505 | 8 | |a "Americans are using new strategies and tools to renew democracy and curb unbalanced corporate power. STILL ESSENTIAL: The Citizens United decision continues to distort the electoral process and expand the power of corporations; UPDATED THROUGHOUT: This second edition details both the ruling's expanding damage to democracy and, in an all-new chapter, how citizens can lead the battle against it. The Supreme Court's Citizens United ruling that corporations are people eliminated campaign finance restrictions and dramatically increased corporate power, but attorney Jeff Clements shows how you can fight back. Clements explains the strange history of how the Supreme Court came to embrace a concept that flies in the face of not only all common sense but most of American legal history as well. He shows how unfettered corporate rights will impact public health, energy policy, the environment, and the justice system. | |
| 505 | 8 | |a In this new edition Clements details Citizens United's ongoing destructive effects-for example, Chevron was able to spend | |
| 505 | 8 | |a A plain-English guide to the disastrous practical consequences of the bizarre legal doctrine of corporate personhood enshrined most recently in the Supreme Courts Citizens United decision; Features a constitutional amendment designed to overturn Citizens United and restore the government to the people; Includes a tool kit to help citizens mount a grassroots campaign to pass the Peoples Rights amendment; The January 2010 Supreme Court Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission decision marked a culminating victory for the legal doctrine of corporate personhood. Corporations, as legal persons, are now entitled to exercise their alleged free-speech rights in the form of campaign spending, effectively enabling corporate domination of the electoral process. | |
| 505 | 8 | |a Jeffrey Clements uncovers the roots, expansion, and far-reaching effects of the strange and destructive idea, which flies in the face of not only all common sense but, Clements shows, most of American legal history, from 1787 to the 1970s. He details its impact on the American political landscape, economy, job market, environment, and public healthand how it permeates our daily lives, from the quality of air we breathe to the types of jobs we can get to the politicians we elect. Most importantly, he offers a solution: a constitutional amendment to reverse Citizens United and tools readers can use to mount a grassroots drive to get it passed. Overturning Citizens United is not about a triumph of one political ideology over another, it's about restoring the democratic principles on which America was built. Republican president Theodore Roosevelt and conservative Supreme Court Chief Justice William Rehnquist both vocally opposed the idea of corporate personhood. | |
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| contents | Introduction. What's at stake -- 1. American democracy works, and corporations fight back -- 2. Corporations are not people, and they make lousy parents -- 3. If corporations are not people, what are they? -- 4. Corporations don't vote; they don't have to -- 5. Did political inequality and corporate power destroy the working American economy? -- 6. Corporations can't love -- 7. Restoring democracy and republican government -- 8. Do something "Americans are using new strategies and tools to renew democracy and curb unbalanced corporate power. STILL ESSENTIAL: The Citizens United decision continues to distort the electoral process and expand the power of corporations; UPDATED THROUGHOUT: This second edition details both the ruling's expanding damage to democracy and, in an all-new chapter, how citizens can lead the battle against it. The Supreme Court's Citizens United ruling that corporations are people eliminated campaign finance restrictions and dramatically increased corporate power, but attorney Jeff Clements shows how you can fight back. Clements explains the strange history of how the Supreme Court came to embrace a concept that flies in the face of not only all common sense but most of American legal history as well. He shows how unfettered corporate rights will impact public health, energy policy, the environment, and the justice system. In this new edition Clements details Citizens United's ongoing destructive effects-for example, Chevron was able to spend A plain-English guide to the disastrous practical consequences of the bizarre legal doctrine of corporate personhood enshrined most recently in the Supreme Courts Citizens United decision; Features a constitutional amendment designed to overturn Citizens United and restore the government to the people; Includes a tool kit to help citizens mount a grassroots campaign to pass the Peoples Rights amendment; The January 2010 Supreme Court Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission decision marked a culminating victory for the legal doctrine of corporate personhood. Corporations, as legal persons, are now entitled to exercise their alleged free-speech rights in the form of campaign spending, effectively enabling corporate domination of the electoral process. Jeffrey Clements uncovers the roots, expansion, and far-reaching effects of the strange and destructive idea, which flies in the face of not only all common sense but, Clements shows, most of American legal history, from 1787 to the 1970s. He details its impact on the American political landscape, economy, job market, environment, and public healthand how it permeates our daily lives, from the quality of air we breathe to the types of jobs we can get to the politicians we elect. Most importantly, he offers a solution: a constitutional amendment to reverse Citizens United and tools readers can use to mount a grassroots drive to get it passed. Overturning Citizens United is not about a triumph of one political ideology over another, it's about restoring the democratic principles on which America was built. Republican president Theodore Roosevelt and conservative Supreme Court Chief Justice William Rehnquist both vocally opposed the idea of corporate personhood. Community by community, state by state, we can cross party and ideological lines to form a united front against unchecked corporate power in America and reinstate a government that is truly of, by, and for the people."-- |
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| spelling | Clements, Jeffrey D. Verfasser aut Corporations are not people reclaiming democracy from big money and global corporations Jeff Clements Second edition San Francisco Berrett-Koehler Publishers [2014] © 2014 1 online resource (xxii, 246 pages) txt rdacontent c rdamedia cr rdacarrier BK currents book Print version record Introduction. What's at stake -- 1. American democracy works, and corporations fight back -- 2. Corporations are not people, and they make lousy parents -- 3. If corporations are not people, what are they? -- 4. Corporations don't vote; they don't have to -- 5. Did political inequality and corporate power destroy the working American economy? -- 6. Corporations can't love -- 7. Restoring democracy and republican government -- 8. Do something "Americans are using new strategies and tools to renew democracy and curb unbalanced corporate power. STILL ESSENTIAL: The Citizens United decision continues to distort the electoral process and expand the power of corporations; UPDATED THROUGHOUT: This second edition details both the ruling's expanding damage to democracy and, in an all-new chapter, how citizens can lead the battle against it. The Supreme Court's Citizens United ruling that corporations are people eliminated campaign finance restrictions and dramatically increased corporate power, but attorney Jeff Clements shows how you can fight back. Clements explains the strange history of how the Supreme Court came to embrace a concept that flies in the face of not only all common sense but most of American legal history as well. He shows how unfettered corporate rights will impact public health, energy policy, the environment, and the justice system. In this new edition Clements details Citizens United's ongoing destructive effects-for example, Chevron was able to spend A plain-English guide to the disastrous practical consequences of the bizarre legal doctrine of corporate personhood enshrined most recently in the Supreme Courts Citizens United decision; Features a constitutional amendment designed to overturn Citizens United and restore the government to the people; Includes a tool kit to help citizens mount a grassroots campaign to pass the Peoples Rights amendment; The January 2010 Supreme Court Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission decision marked a culminating victory for the legal doctrine of corporate personhood. Corporations, as legal persons, are now entitled to exercise their alleged free-speech rights in the form of campaign spending, effectively enabling corporate domination of the electoral process. Jeffrey Clements uncovers the roots, expansion, and far-reaching effects of the strange and destructive idea, which flies in the face of not only all common sense but, Clements shows, most of American legal history, from 1787 to the 1970s. He details its impact on the American political landscape, economy, job market, environment, and public healthand how it permeates our daily lives, from the quality of air we breathe to the types of jobs we can get to the politicians we elect. Most importantly, he offers a solution: a constitutional amendment to reverse Citizens United and tools readers can use to mount a grassroots drive to get it passed. Overturning Citizens United is not about a triumph of one political ideology over another, it's about restoring the democratic principles on which America was built. Republican president Theodore Roosevelt and conservative Supreme Court Chief Justice William Rehnquist both vocally opposed the idea of corporate personhood. Community by community, state by state, we can cross party and ideological lines to form a united front against unchecked corporate power in America and reinstate a government that is truly of, by, and for the people."-- POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Freedom bisacsh POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / Political Advocacy bisacsh Business and politics fast Corporations / Political activity fast Corporations / Political aspects fast Politik Business and politics United States Corporations Political aspects United States Corporations Political activity United States USA Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Clements, Jeffrey D . Corporations are not people |
| spellingShingle | Clements, Jeffrey D. Corporations are not people reclaiming democracy from big money and global corporations Introduction. What's at stake -- 1. American democracy works, and corporations fight back -- 2. Corporations are not people, and they make lousy parents -- 3. If corporations are not people, what are they? -- 4. Corporations don't vote; they don't have to -- 5. Did political inequality and corporate power destroy the working American economy? -- 6. Corporations can't love -- 7. Restoring democracy and republican government -- 8. Do something "Americans are using new strategies and tools to renew democracy and curb unbalanced corporate power. STILL ESSENTIAL: The Citizens United decision continues to distort the electoral process and expand the power of corporations; UPDATED THROUGHOUT: This second edition details both the ruling's expanding damage to democracy and, in an all-new chapter, how citizens can lead the battle against it. The Supreme Court's Citizens United ruling that corporations are people eliminated campaign finance restrictions and dramatically increased corporate power, but attorney Jeff Clements shows how you can fight back. Clements explains the strange history of how the Supreme Court came to embrace a concept that flies in the face of not only all common sense but most of American legal history as well. He shows how unfettered corporate rights will impact public health, energy policy, the environment, and the justice system. In this new edition Clements details Citizens United's ongoing destructive effects-for example, Chevron was able to spend A plain-English guide to the disastrous practical consequences of the bizarre legal doctrine of corporate personhood enshrined most recently in the Supreme Courts Citizens United decision; Features a constitutional amendment designed to overturn Citizens United and restore the government to the people; Includes a tool kit to help citizens mount a grassroots campaign to pass the Peoples Rights amendment; The January 2010 Supreme Court Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission decision marked a culminating victory for the legal doctrine of corporate personhood. Corporations, as legal persons, are now entitled to exercise their alleged free-speech rights in the form of campaign spending, effectively enabling corporate domination of the electoral process. Jeffrey Clements uncovers the roots, expansion, and far-reaching effects of the strange and destructive idea, which flies in the face of not only all common sense but, Clements shows, most of American legal history, from 1787 to the 1970s. He details its impact on the American political landscape, economy, job market, environment, and public healthand how it permeates our daily lives, from the quality of air we breathe to the types of jobs we can get to the politicians we elect. Most importantly, he offers a solution: a constitutional amendment to reverse Citizens United and tools readers can use to mount a grassroots drive to get it passed. Overturning Citizens United is not about a triumph of one political ideology over another, it's about restoring the democratic principles on which America was built. Republican president Theodore Roosevelt and conservative Supreme Court Chief Justice William Rehnquist both vocally opposed the idea of corporate personhood. Community by community, state by state, we can cross party and ideological lines to form a united front against unchecked corporate power in America and reinstate a government that is truly of, by, and for the people."-- POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Freedom bisacsh POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / Political Advocacy bisacsh Business and politics fast Corporations / Political activity fast Corporations / Political aspects fast Politik Business and politics United States Corporations Political aspects United States Corporations Political activity United States |
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| topic | POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Freedom bisacsh POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / Political Advocacy bisacsh Business and politics fast Corporations / Political activity fast Corporations / Political aspects fast Politik Business and politics United States Corporations Political aspects United States Corporations Political activity United States |
| topic_facet | POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Freedom POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / Political Advocacy Business and politics Corporations / Political activity Corporations / Political aspects Politik Business and politics United States Corporations Political aspects United States Corporations Political activity United States USA |
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