Further to my preceding post on speech and corporations , I highly recommend Lawrence Lessig `s insightful short piece, " The Principled and Pure Court? A Reply to Glenn Greenwald " (HuffPo, January 27). For those who haven`t seen it yet, I take the liberty of quoting liberally (emphasis added...
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TokyoTom
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Further, virtually everyone has been ignoring (2) WHY it is that there is so much concern about corporations and their influence on (and vulnerability to) government: namely , states have allowed individuals (and now other corporations) to form separate, limited-liability legal entities that cut off...
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After the break is a short essay I wrote on the Supreme Court case, National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) v. Jones and Laughlin Steel Corporation (1937). The essay briefly addresses some of the case history regarding the Commerce Clause of the US Constitution as well as the impact that NLRB had on the...
On several occasions ( the most recent ) I have discussed the abandonment of our Constitution and its principles as leading to the inevitable economic mess we now confront. As an example of how the Constitution no longer matters, at least in the eyes of the ruling class, the following article from the...
One of the things which has gotten less attention than it needs in all the noise that has been generated by the debate over health care reform is one that is fundamental to not only health care, but the very manner in which our country is governed. Simply stated it is this: can the Congress legally mandate...