SOSC 1340 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Cheapside, Bloomberg Businessweek, Equal Protection Clause
18 Jan 2018
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As corporations gain in autonomous institutional power and become more detached from people and place, the human interest and the corporate interest increasingly diverge. September 2000, business week talked about how people felt about the power wielded by alarge corporation in. Polls suggested that a massive cultural stomachachec: too much corporate power, too much corporate everything. Business has too much power over too many aspects of our lives . Ony 5 percent said that big companies had too little power: 74 percent said too much . Power that large corporations derice from their political action committees, their lobbists, their lawyers, their control over million of jobs. Revolving door corporate people in and out of government agencies, the corporate ownership of media conglomerates and so forth. The defendant corporations are persons within the intent of the clause of section i, which forbids a state to deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws .
