Book contents
- Corporate Personhood
- Corporate Personhood
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Table of Cases
- Introduction
- 1 Legal Theories of the Corporate Person
- 2 Philosophical Dimensions of the Corporate Person
- 3 Social Science Dimensions of the Corporate Person
- 4 Constitutional Dimensions of the Corporate Person: Corporate Free Speech
- 5 Constitutional Dimensions of the Corporate Person: Corporate Religion and Race
- 6 Abolishing Corporate Personhood
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index
Conclusion
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 21 June 2019
- Corporate Personhood
- Corporate Personhood
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Table of Cases
- Introduction
- 1 Legal Theories of the Corporate Person
- 2 Philosophical Dimensions of the Corporate Person
- 3 Social Science Dimensions of the Corporate Person
- 4 Constitutional Dimensions of the Corporate Person: Corporate Free Speech
- 5 Constitutional Dimensions of the Corporate Person: Corporate Religion and Race
- 6 Abolishing Corporate Personhood
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
The place of corporations in our society and in our legal system has always been deeply ambiguous. Americans have a “long-standing love/hate relationship with the corporation” characterized by an “enthusiastic embrace of the corporation as an engine of opportunity and prosperity, and [a] simultaneous skeptical distrust of it as a source of corruption and driver of inequality.”1 The corporation is an extraordinarily useful instrument that can channel the collective energies of individuals to accomplish tasks that would be impossible for an individual to undertake alone. Corporations permeate almost every part of our lives, contributing to so many integral aspects of our existence, including our food, housing, healthcare, security, transportation, amusement, and communication needs. Through the production and distribution of innumerable goods and services, the corporation has revolutionized the way we live and offers every likelihood of further extending human possibility. Even so, the benefits produced by the corporation have come at a very high cost.
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- Corporate Personhood , pp. 270 - 274Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2019