Format:
xv, 280 pages
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22 cm
ISBN:
9780300211474
,
0300211473
Content:
"Are corporations people? The U.S. Supreme Court launched a heated debate when it ruled in Citizens United that corporations can claim the same free speech rights as humans. Should corporations be able to claim rights of free speech, religious conscience, and due process? Kent Greenfield provides an answer: Sometimes. With an analysis sure to challenge the assumptions of both progressives and conservatives, Greenfield explores corporations' claims to constitutional rights and the foundational conflicts about their obligations in society. He argues that a blanket opposition to corporate personhood is misguided, since it is consistent with both the purpose of corporations and the Constitution itself that corporations can claim rights at least some of the time. The problem with Citizens United is not that corporations have a right to speak, but for whom they speak. The solution is not to end corporate personhood but to require corporations to act more like citizens"--Book jacket
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-266) and index
,
In defense of corporate persons -- Corporations and the "damn public" -- Should corporations have rights? -- Corporations and fundamental rights, equality, and religion -- Corporations and speech theory -- Speech and corporate purpose -- More personhood, please -- Six bad arguments for shareholder primacy -- The promise of corporate personhood -- Making corporations citizens.
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe Greenfield, Kent Corporations are people too New Haven : Yale University Press, 2018 ISBN 9780300240801
Language:
English
Keywords:
USA
;
Gesellschaftsrecht
;
Grundrecht
