We the Corporations
Autor Adam Winkleren Limba Engleză Hardback – 27 feb 2018
Ne-a atras atenția această lucrare de referință a lui Adam Winkler, care utilizează baze de date juridice vaste și cronici ale Curții Supreme pentru a demonta mitul conform căruia puterea politică a corporațiilor este un fenomen recent. În We the Corporations – How American Businesses Won Their Civil Rights, descoperim o istorie de peste patru secole în care mediul de afaceri american a orchestrat o campanie metodică pentru a obține „drepturi egale”, transformând Constituția într-un instrument de protecție a marelui capital. Apreciem rigoarea cu care autorul urmărește evoluția conceptului de „personalitate juridică”, de la primele carti coloniale până la controversata decizie Citizens United din 2010. Textul nu se limitează la teorie, ci aduce în prim-plan contribuțiile unor figuri istorice precum Daniel Webster sau Thurgood Marshall, evidențiind ironiile unei istorii în care drepturile civile au fost adaptate nevoilor corporative. Comparabil cu Corporations and Society de Warren J. Samuels în rigurozitatea analizei istorice, volumul lui Winkler este însă actualizat pentru a reflecta implicațiile profunde ale jurisprudenței moderne și modul în care marile companii au reușit să își asigure libertatea de exprimare și protecția constituțională. Ritmul narativ este susținut de cazuri concrete, oferind o perspectivă incisivă asupra modului în care structura democrației americane a fost reconfigurată prin litigii strategice.
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Specificații
ISBN-10: 0871407124
Pagini: 496
Dimensiuni: 162 x 241 x 45 mm
Greutate: 0.84 kg
Editura: Liveright Publishing Corporation
De ce să citești această carte
Recomandăm această carte cercetătorilor în științe politice și drept, dar și cititorilor interesați de mecanismele puterii în SUA. Cititorul câștigă o înțelegere clară a modului în care corporațiile au dobândit statut de persoană sub Constituție. Este un motiv concret pentru a reevalua dezbaterile actuale despre influența banilor în politică, oferind contextul istoric esențial pe care manualele standard îl omit adesea.
Descriere scurtă
Exposing the historical origins of Citizens United and Hobby Lobby, Adam Winkler explains how those controversial Supreme Court decisions extending free speech and religious liberty to corporations were the capstone of a centuries-long struggle over corporate personhood and constitutional protections for business. Beginning his account in the colonial era, Winkler reveals the profound influence corporations had on the birth of democracy and on the shape of the Constitution itself. Once the Constitution was ratified, corporations quickly sought to gain the rights it guaranteed. The first Supreme Court case on the rights of corporations was decided in 1809, a half-century before the first comparable cases on the rights of African Americans or women. Ever since, corporations have waged a persistent and remarkably fruitful campaign to win an ever-greater share of individual rights.
Although corporations never marched on Washington, they employed many of the same strategies of more familiar civil rights struggles: civil disobedience, test cases, and novel legal claims made in a purposeful effort to reshape the law. Indeed, corporations have often been unheralded innovators in constitutional law, and several of the individual rights Americans hold most dear were first secured in lawsuits brought by businesses.
Winkler enlivens his narrative with a flair for storytelling and a colorful cast of characters: among others, Daniel Webster, America's greatest advocate, who argued some of the earliest corporate rights cases on behalf of his business clients; Roger Taney, the reviled Chief Justice, who surprisingly fought to limit protections for corporations--in part to protect slavery; and Roscoe Conkling, a renowned politician who deceived the Supreme Court in a brazen effort to win for corporations the rights added to the Constitution for the freed slaves. Alexander Hamilton, Teddy Roosevelt, Huey Long, Ralph Nader, Louis Brandeis, and even Thurgood Marshall all played starring roles in the story of the corporate rights movement.
In this heated political age, nothing can be timelier than Winkler's tour de force, which shows how America's most powerful corporations won our most fundamental rights and turned the Constitution into a weapon to impede the regulation of big business.
Descriere
In a revelatory work praised as “excellent and timely” (New York Times Book Review, front page), Adam Winkler, author of Gunfight, once again makes sense of our fraught constitutional history in this incisive portrait of how American businesses seized political power, won “equal rights,” and transformed the Constitution to serve big business. Uncovering the deep roots of Citizens United, he repositions that controversial 2010 Supreme Court decision as the capstone of a centuries-old battle for corporate personhood. “Tackling a topic that ought to be at the heart of political debate” (Economist), Winkler surveys more than four hundred years of diverse cases—and the contributions of such legendary legal figures as Daniel Webster, Roger Taney, Lewis Powell, and even Thurgood Marshall—to reveal that “the history of corporate rights is replete with ironies” (Wall Street Journal). We the Corporations is an uncompromising work of history to be read for years to come.