History 1807 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Ath, Corporate Personhood, Southern Pacific Transportation Company
21 Apr 2016
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Removes narrow mandates that spell out what corporations intend to do with their incorporations one can become incorporated w/o declaring what its intent it. Attempting to steal business from new jersey and new york. Moves economy away from individualistic enterprise (capitalism based on partnerships) Corporation begins to acquire set of rights that were previously thought to be reserved for actual people easier to argue that they"re completely free from the state. Look at 4 supreme court cases that are toward corporate personhood: Charter of dartmouth says that state can"t interfere with internal affairs of college. Charter can"t be changed/challenged b/c of what it says in constitution. Darmouth kept its charter and state didn"t make it public. Slowly inching company away from grant theory of charters. Gov"t wanted to overturn british empire"s grant theory . Corporate charter now regarded as contract protected by constitution. Santa clara county vs southern pacific railroad (1886)
