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In 1886, . . . in the case of Santa Clara County v. Southern Pacific Railroad Company, the U.S. Supreme Court decided that a private corporation is a person.
This is based on the oral argument of a single judge's two sentence quip....
The court does not wish to hear argument on the question whether the provision in the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution, which forbids a State to deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws, applies to these corporations. We are all of opinion that it does.
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Who can sue a corporation?
Corporations may be sued by any business, including other corporations. They may also be sued by individuals or groups of persons.
Why is it bad that corporations have first amendment rights?
Because the US Supreme Court has ruled that, according to their interpretation of the Consititution, that corporations are "persons" under the law.
Who is Will Hawney?
Will Hawney is a insolvency specialist who provides assistance for corporations and persons experiencing financial duress.
Businesses that have a specific legal identity separate from the identity of the person or persons who operate the business?
corporations
Why did American business become corporations?
Corporations are more safe to own than personal businesses and they get tax cuts.
Represents businesses that have a specific legal identity separate from the identity of the person or persons who operate the business?
corporations
What represents businesses that have a specific legal identity separate from the identity of the person or persons who operate the business?
corporations
What represents business that have a specific legal identity separate from the identity of the person or persons who operate the business?
corporations
Why did many American businesses become corporations?
Corporations are more safe to own than personal businesses and they get tax cuts.
Why did many American business's become corporations?
Corporations are more safe to own than personal businesses and they get tax cuts.
When do you use an apostrophe with persons?
When representing possession. It would become persons'
When did corporations become a moving force behind the economy?
the late 1800s
