PLSC 380F Lecture Notes - Lecture 30: Bubble Act, Sustainable Energy, Prescott Bush
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Shell is lobbying the european commission very heavily against sustainable energy. Jamaica: economic guantanamo little leverage on the currency. Glorifying the shareholder family company that is very large, sell crafts, want to be exempt to giving healthcare. Religious freedom restoration act: scotus sid yes, essentially, corporations have rights to freedom of religion. Early 12th century:corporation was a privilege was an agreement between people, charter created and then allowed to exist for a short time but many people took the money and ran it was banned criminally. Bubble act corporations brought people in who were strangers and basically there to make it pro t. separated ownership and management. Scotus 1886: because corporations are persons, protection to 14th amendment equal protection and due process originally for freedmen in the reconstruction era. 1908: at&t monopoly on telephone services girls went to work for bell as operator enormous provider of jobs to high school graduates.