Download or read book The Power of Congress to Enact Incorporation Laws and to Regulate Corporations written by Victor Morawetz and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Power of Congress to Enact Incorporation Laws and to Regulate Corporations written by Victor Morawetz and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 683 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Corporation Law written by American School (Lansing, Ill.) and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Power to Regulate Corporations and Commerce written by Frank Hendrick and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 604 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Utility Corporations written by United States. Federal Trade Commission and published by . This book was released on 1934 with total page 660 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Corporations the Original Understanding and the Problem of Power written by Ian S. Speir and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How did Americans of the late eighteenth century conceive of the corporation and of its role in society? And how did that understanding square with the original, publicly understood meaning of the Constitution and Bill of Rights? More to the point, in the wake of the Supreme Court's controversial decision in Citizens United, would late-eighteenth-century Americans have thought that a corporation enjoyed the "freedom of speech" that the First Amendment guarantees? This paper wrestles with those questions. It attempts, first, to articulate the "original understanding of the corporation," arguing that for Americans of this period the corporation presented what might be called a problem of power. Case studies of numerous corporation controversies in the eighteenth century demonstrate that there was a recognized need both to delimit legislative authority over the creation and subsequent regulation of corporations and to limit corporate influence in private and public life. The solutions that emerged in this period were aimed at curtailing the frequency of special-interest laws, legislative partisanship, and corruption. The second half of the paper then focuses on how these concerns about corporate and legislative power square with, and are reflected in, the original meaning of the Constitution and Bill of Rights. In drafting these documents and establishing the national government, the Framers were presented with their own problem of power. This paper argues that the solutions they adopted support free speech protections for a corporate body. The First Amendment was phrased and understood as an express limitation on congressional authority. Because it aimed specifically at the powers of Congress, and not at the rights of speakers as such, text and contemporary understanding strongly suggest that the amendment limits the ability of Congress to restrict “speech,” regardless of its source. This view is buttressed by the nation's first free speech controversy in 1794, involving politically active groups that successfully repelled a congressional attempt at censure, despite the charge that their “self-created,” permanent status deprived them of First Amendment protections. By close analogy, the First Amendment as originally understood would deny Congress any ability to abridge the speech of an incorporated group. While this conclusion seems sound as a matter of text, contemporary understanding, and post-ratification practice, it is not the case that the Framers took no account of the problems of rent-seeking and corruption that preoccupied participants in contemporary debates over the corporation. To the contrary, the Framers recognized that powerful interest groups (“factions”) would shape national politics and might exercise an undue influence in public affairs. Their solution, however, was not to lodge a power in Congress to regulate and restrict these groups' participation in the political process. It was, rather, an institutional solution - a series of structural safeguards built into the Constitution and designed to limit possibilities for rent-seeking and corruption. These included the separation of powers, a bicameral legislature, regular elections, and more. Juxtaposition of these two solutions - the First Amendment's limitations and the Constitution's institutional controls - make out a strong case that, for the founding generation, a corporation would have enjoyed the First Amendment's protections for “freedom of speech.”
Download or read book List of More Recent Works on Federal Control of Commerce and Corporations written by Library of Congress. Division of Bibliography and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Federal Incorporation written by Roland Carlisle Heisler and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Powers of Regulation Vested in Congress written by Max Pam and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Federal Licensing of Corporations written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary and published by . This book was released on 1937 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book How Our Laws are Made written by John V. Sullivan and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book We the Corporations How American Businesses Won Their Civil Rights written by Adam Winkler and published by Liveright Publishing. This book was released on 2018-02-27 with total page 485 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: National Book Award for Nonfiction Finalist National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction Finalist A New York Times Notable Book of the Year A Washington Post Notable Book of the Year A PBS “Now Read This” Book Club Selection Named one of the Best Books of the Year by the Economist and the Boston Globe A landmark exposé and “deeply engaging legal history” of one of the most successful, yet least known, civil rights movements in American history (Washington Post). In a revelatory work praised as “excellent and timely” (New York Times Book Review, front page), Adam Winkler, author of Gunfight, once again makes sense of our fraught constitutional history in this incisive portrait of how American businesses seized political power, won “equal rights,” and transformed the Constitution to serve big business. Uncovering the deep roots of Citizens United, he repositions that controversial 2010 Supreme Court decision as the capstone of a centuries-old battle for corporate personhood. “Tackling a topic that ought to be at the heart of political debate” (Economist), Winkler surveys more than four hundred years of diverse cases—and the contributions of such legendary legal figures as Daniel Webster, Roger Taney, Lewis Powell, and even Thurgood Marshall—to reveal that “the history of corporate rights is replete with ironies” (Wall Street Journal). We the Corporations is an uncompromising work of history to be read for years to come.
Download or read book Select List of References on Federal Control of Commerce and Corporations written by Library of Congress. Bibliography Division and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Corporations and American Democracy written by Naomi R. Lamoreaux and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2017-05-08 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recent U.S. Supreme Court decisions in Citizens United and other high-profile cases have sparked passionate disagreement about the proper role of corporations in American democracy. Partisans on both sides have made bold claims, often with little basis in historical facts. Bringing together leading scholars of history, law, and political science, Corporations and American Democracy provides the historical and intellectual grounding necessary to put today’s corporate policy debates in proper context. From the nation’s founding to the present, Americans have regarded corporations with ambivalence—embracing their potential to revolutionize economic life and yet remaining wary of their capacity to undermine democratic institutions. Although corporations were originally created to give businesses and other associations special legal rights and privileges, historically they were denied many of the constitutional protections afforded flesh-and-blood citizens. This comprehensive volume covers a range of topics, including the origins of corporations in English and American law, the historical shift from special charters to general incorporation, the increased variety of corporations that this shift made possible, and the roots of modern corporate regulation in the Progressive Era and New Deal. It also covers the evolution of judicial views of corporate rights, particularly since corporations have become the form of choice for an increasing variety of nonbusiness organizations, including political advocacy groups. Ironically, in today’s global economy the decline of large, vertically integrated corporations—the type of corporation that past reform movements fought so hard to regulate—poses some of the newest challenges to effective government oversight of the economy.
Download or read book Selected Articles on Federal Control of Interstate Corporations written by Edith M. Phelps and published by General Books. This book was released on 2012-02 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: SELECTED ARTICLES ON FEDERAL CONTROL OF INTERSTATE CORPORATIONS INTRODUCTION The question of adequate regulation of the large corporations engaged in interstate commerce is a broad and difficult one, both because of the nature and variety of the problems involved, and the many, and often conflicting, remedies that are proposed for the evils of the existing system of control. At the present time, one thing seems definitely settled: That the government shall control interstate commerce and its agencies. The time has passed when the claim of railroad presidents and the managers of large industrial corporations, to the right of secrecy and non-interference in their business affairs, received serious consideration. The demand is now almost unanimous for efficient publicity and the regulation by law of all large industrial enterprises having the corporate form, whether railroad, trust, holding company, or combination. The question is what form this regulation shall take. By the Constitution (Article I, Section 8, Sub-Section 3), Congress has power to regulate commerce with foreign nations, and among the several states and with the Indian tribes. For many years this power was not exercised, except to a very limited extent, and, with few exceptions, the great railroad and industrial corporations were chartered by the states. In place of providing some system of control both Congress and thevarious states vied with each other in making concessions to the railroads in the shape of grants of land, remission of duties, etc. As a result, serious abuses soon abounded, and thorough regulation was demanded both of the states and the national government. This regulation is now supplied by the state railroad commissions and general incorporation laws, and also by the national Intersta...
Download or read book Congressional Record written by United States. Congress and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 1462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Congressional Record is the official record of the proceedings and debates of the United States Congress. It is published daily when Congress is in session. The Congressional Record began publication in 1873. Debates for sessions prior to 1873 are recorded in The Debates and Proceedings in the Congress of the United States (1789-1824), the Register of Debates in Congress (1824-1837), and the Congressional Globe (1833-1873)
Download or read book Living Originalism written by Jack M. Balkin and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2011-11-29 with total page 481 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originalism and living constitutionalism, so often understood to be diametrically opposing views of our nation’s founding document, are not in conflict—they are compatible. So argues Jack Balkin, one of the leading constitutional scholars of our time, in this long-awaited book. Step by step, Balkin gracefully outlines a constitutional theory that demonstrates why modern conceptions of civil rights and civil liberties, and the modern state’s protection of national security, health, safety, and the environment, are fully consistent with the Constitution’s original meaning. And he shows how both liberals and conservatives, working through political parties and social movements, play important roles in the ongoing project of constitutional construction. By making firm rules but also deliberately incorporating flexible standards and abstract principles, the Constitution’s authors constructed a framework for politics on which later generations could build. Americans have taken up this task, producing institutions and doctrines that flesh out the Constitution’s text and principles. Balkin’s analysis offers a way past the angry polemics of our era, a deepened understanding of the Constitution that is at once originalist and living constitutionalist, and a vision that allows all Americans to reclaim the Constitution as their own.
