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  Friday  December 27  2002    03: 37 PM

corporatism

Sing, Dance, Rejoice—Corporate Personhood Is Doomed
A Review of Thom Hartmann's Unequal Protection: the Rise of Corporate Dominance and the Theft of Human Rights

Unequal Protection may prove to be the most significant book in the history of corporate personhood, a doctrine which dates to 1886. For 116 years, corporate personhood has been scrutinized and criticized, but never seriously threatened. Now Thom Hartmann has discovered a fatal legal flaw in its origin: corporate personhood is doomed.
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This is a nice thought, but I don't think the corporations going to suddenly say "Whoops! Our mistake. What were we thinking?" But we won't get our government back from the corporations until the day they loose their personhood.