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  71. Mattathias Schwartz, “Map: How Occupy Wall Street Chose Zuccotti Park,” New Yorker, November 18, 2011, available at http://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/map-how-occupy-wall-street-chose-zuccotti-park.

  72. See John Nichols, “America’s Most Dynamic (Yet Under-Covered) Movement: Overturning ‘Citizens United,’ ” The Nation, July 5, 2013; Allegra Pocinki, “16 States Call to Overturn ‘Citizens United,’ ” July 8, 2013, available at http://www.publicampaign.org/blog/2013/07/08/16-states-call-overturn-%E2%80%98citizens-united%E2%80%99.

  73. Author Interview of Jim Bopp, June 19, 2014.

  CONCLUSION: CORPORATE RIGHTS AND WRONGS

  1. Ashley Parker, “ ‘Corporations Are People,’ Romney Tells Iowa Hecklers Angry Over His Tax Policy,” New York Times, August 11, 2011, available at http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/12/us/politics/12romney.html.

  2. National Federation of Independent Business v. Sebelius, 567 U.S. 519 (2012).

  3. Verified Complaint, Hobby Lobby Stores, Inc. v. Sebelius, 2012 WL 4009450 (W.D.Okla. September 12, 2012) (No. CIV-12-1000-HE).

  4. See 42 U.S.C. §2000bb(a)(2)–(4).

  5. Burwell v. Hobby Lobby Stores, Inc., 134 S. Ct. 2751 (2014).

  6. On the religious liberty rights of corporations, see Micah Schwartzman et al., The Rise of Corporate Religious Liberty (2016); David Gans and Ilya Shapiro, Religious Liberties for Corporations? Hobby Lobby, the Affordable Care Act, and the Constitution (2014). On Hobby Lobby’s piercing-the-corporate-veil reasoning, see Schwartzman et al., “Introduction,” in The Rise of Corporate Religious Liberty, iii; Elizabeth Pollman, “Corporate Law and Theory in Hobby Lobby,” in The Rise of Corporate Religious Liberty, 149. On a corporate law defense of piercing the veil in corporate religious liberty cases, see Stephen M. Bainbridge, “Using Reverse Veil Piercing to Vindicate the Free Exercise Rights of Incorporated Employers,” 16 The Green Bag 2d 235 (2013).

  7. Leo Strine Jr., chief justice of the Delaware Supreme Court, delivered the 2015–2016 Judge Ralph K. Winter Lecture on Corporate Law and Governance on October 13, 2015. Chief Justice Strine’s lecture was entitled “Corporate Power Ratchet: The Courts’ Role in Eroding ‘We the People’s’ Ability to Constrain Our Corporate Creations,” and is available for viewing at https://www.law.yale.edu/yls-today/yale-law-school-videos/leo-strine-corporate-power-ratchet.

  8. On Strine, see Len Costa, “Boss of the Bosses,” Legal Affairs, July/August 2005, available at https://www.legalaffairs.org/issues/July-August-2005/feature_costa_julaug05.msp.

  9. Liz Hoffman, “Leo Strine Nominated to Head Delaware Supreme Court,” Wall Street Journal, January 8, 2014, available at https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052702304347904579308432948927494.

  10. Leo E. Strine Jr. and Nicholas Walter, “Conservative Collision Course?: The Tension between Conservative Corporate Law Theory and Citizens United,” 100 Cornell Law Review 335 (2015).

  11. See Burnet v. Clark, 287 U.S. 410 (1932).

  12. See Amicus Curiae Brief of Corporate and Criminal Law Professors In Support of Petitioners, Sebelius v. Hobby Lobby Stores, Inc., available at http://www.americanbar.org/content/dam/aba/publications/supreme_court_preview/briefs-v3/13-354-13-356_amcu_cclp.authcheckdam.pdf.

  13. For an argument in a similar vein, see Daniel J. H. Greenwood, “Essential Speech: Why Corporate Speech Is Not Free,” 83 Iowa Law Review 995 (1998).

  14. For Olivas’s interview, see “US Region Bans Oil and Gas Drilling,” Al Jazeera English, May 27, 2013, available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SuqpSzNxLDE. On Olivas and the fracking ban, see Ernie Atencio, “The Man Behind a New Mexico County’s Fracking Ban,” High Country News, June 24, 2014, available at http://www.hcn.org/issues/46.11/the-man-behind-a-new-mexico-countys-fracking-ban; Staci Matlock, “Federal Judge Overturns Mora County’s Drilling Ordinance,” The Santa Fe New Mexican, January 20, 2015, available at http://www.santafenewmexican.com/news/local_news/federal-judge-overturns-mora-county-s-drilling-ordinance/article_dddd444a-6ae8-56ea-b8a7-999c562a77b8.html; Statement of County Commissioner John Olivas, Chairman, Mora County, New Mexico Board of Commissioners, March 20, 2014, available at http://celdf.org/2014/03/statement-of-county-commissioner-john-olivas-chairman-mora-county-new-mexico-board-of-commissioners/; Nina Bunker Ruiz, “How Residents of a Rural New Mexico County Fought the Fracking Barons and Won—For Now,” Yes! Magazine, September 15, 2014, available at http://www.yesmagazine.org/issues/the-end-of-poverty/how-residents-of-a-rural-new-mexico-county-fought-fracking-barons-and-won.

  15. On Browning, see Kyle Marksteiner, “From Sacks to Sentencing: Federal Judge Jim Browning,” Focus New Mexico, October 9, 2015, available at http://focusnm.com/articles/2015/10/9/from-sacks-to-sentencing-federal-judge-jim-browning.htm.

  16. See Swepi, LP v. Mora County, 81 F.Supp.3d 1075 (D. N.M. 2015).

  CREDITS

  Frontspiece: “We the Corporate Personhood,” by Brian Corr. Originally for The Subjective Theatre Company.

  Page xii: Courtesy of New York City Parks Photo / Art & Antiquities.

  Page 1: Private Collection © at Look and Learn / Bridgeman Images.

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  Page 46: Courtesy of Historical & Special Collections, Harvard Law School Library.

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  Page 58: John Quincy Adams, by Pieter Van Huffel, 1815, oil on canvas, National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; gift of Mary Louisa Adams Clement in memory of her mother, Louisa Catherine Adams Clement, 1950.

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  Page 72: Daniel Webster, by Francis Alexander, 1835, oil on canvas, National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; bequest of Mrs. John Hay Whitney.

  Page 80: Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire: gift of the Estate of Henry N. Teague, Class of 1900.

  Page 89: Courtesy of the Bruce C. Cooper Collection of Historic US Documents.

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  Page 98: Daniel Webster, by Francis D’Avignon, copy after Mathew B. Brady, 1850, lithograph on paper, National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution.

  Page 111: Courtesy of Donald Duke, Security Pacific National Bank Collection / Los Angeles Public Library.

  Page 116: (top right) Justice Stephen J. Field, photography by Mathew Brady Studio, c. 1870, collection of the Supreme Court of the United States. (bottom left) Reporter of Decisions J. C. Bancroft Davis, by Robert C. Hinckley, c. 1900, Collection of the Supreme Court of the United States. (bottom right) Courtesy of California State University, Chico, Meriam Library Special Collections, sc#14034.

  Page 126: Associate Justice John A. Campbell, photograph by Mathew Brady, c. 1857, Collection of the Supreme Court of the United States.

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  Page 147: Chief Justice Morrison R. Waite, photograph by Mathew Brady, c. 1877, Collection of the Supreme Court of the United States.

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  Page 171: “Reidsville Plant of the American Tobacco Company, Reidsville, N.C.,” Rockingham County, North Carolina Po
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  Page 266: Portrait by John Pelham Black after Yousuf Karsh, Collection of the Supreme Court of the United States.

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  Page 273: Justice John M. Harlan II authored the Supreme Court’s opinion in NAACP v. Alabama ex rel. Patterson. Associate Justice John M. Harlan, photograph by Harris & Ewing, c. 1956, Collection of the Supreme Court of the United States.

  Page 284: Associate Justice Lewis F. Powell Jr., photograph by Chase Studios, c. 1972, Collection of the Supreme Court of the United States.

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  INDEX

  Page numbers listed correspond to the print edition of this book. You can use your device’s search function to locate particular terms in the text.

  Page numbers in italics refer to illustrations.

  Abernathy, Ralph, 257

  abolitionism, 109

  abortion, xvi–xvii, xxiv, 159, 182, 296, 310, 314, 325, 337–38, 374, 379

  Abrams, Floyd, 358, 360–61

  Abrams, Jacob, 239–40, 242, 256

  Abrams v. United States, 239–40, 242

  accounting methods, 208–9, 248

  Adams, John, 43

  Adams, John Quincy, 57–59, 58, 61, 62, 64, 66

  Adams, Samuel, 27, 29–30

  Adarand Constructors, Inc., 277–78

  ad campaigns, 300, 301

  Ad Council, 300, 301

  advertising, xxiii, 167, 236–37, 242–55, 256, 289–300, 301, 301, 309–11, 321, 341, 342, 350–51, 392

  Aetna Life Insurance Co., 347

  affidavits, 202, 209

  affirmative action, 276, 277–78

  African Americans, xiii, xiv, xv, 14, 17, 35, 41, 42, 58, 63–64, 74, 108–10, 113, 114–15, 117, 121, 126, 127, 128–29, 132–33, 144, 159, 185, 217–18, 232, 233–34, 257, 256–78, 283, 322, 344, 350, 376, 395

  see also civil rights movement

  Age of Enterprise, 140–41

  agrarian societies, 40, 106

  airline industry, 298

  Alabama, 99–103, 125, 158, 257–59, 262–64, 265, 268–75, 392

  Alcoa Corp., 304

  alcohol, 189, 223–26, 299–300

  alcohol tax, 223

  Aldermanic Chamber, 191–92

  Alito, Samuel, 337, 338, 348–50, 354–56, 363, 371, 380–82

  American Bar Association (ABA), 281, 283

  American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), 308, 311, 336–37, 361

  American Federation of Labor (AFL), 330–31

  American Federation of Radio Artists (AFRA), 330–32

  American Newspaper Publishers Association, 242, 249

  American Press Co., 250

  American Revolution, 1, 3, 23, 25, 31, 38, 41, 47, 59, 85–86, 87, 133, 139, 238

  American Tobacco Co., 161–69, 171, 173–74, 185, 202, 213

  amicus (friend-of-the-court) briefs, 310–11, 322

  Amistad, 58

  amusement parks, 260–62, 275, 276

  Anderson, Jack, 300–302

  Anderson, Stan, 350

  angioplasty, 322–23

  animal rights, 47–48

  anticorporate bias, 107, 285

  antidiscrimination rules, 97–103

  antitrust regulations, 162, 171, 177, 179, 189, 202, 282, 298, 320

  ARC America Corp., 347

  ARCO, 275–76

  aristocracy, 14

  Armed Forces, US, 367

  arms, right to bear, xvi, 20–21, 48, 177

  Armstrong Committee, 192, 193, 204

  arrest warrants, 176, 189–90

  Arthur, Chester A., xiii, 129

  Articles of Confederation, 5

  Ashcroft, John, 344

  assembly, freedom of, 220, 221–22, 256, 258, 259, 273–75, 359, 369, 388, 401, 402

  Associated Industries of Massachusetts, 310

  Atlantic, 171–72

  “Attack on American Free Enterprise System” (Powell Memorandum), 281, 283–89, 300–305, 303, 314, 321, 322, 333, 335, 350, 402

  Austin v. Michigan Chamber of Commerce, 335–36, 341, 353, 356, 357, 358, 360, 364, 366, 368, 371, 402–3

  auto industry, 245–48, 285–86

  automobile safety, 285–86

  Bacon, Francis, 8

  bail, 24

  bailouts, financial, 27, 359–60

  Bailyn, Bernard, 17

  bakeries, 154, 180–81

  ballot machines, 338–40

  ballot propositions, 197–98, 305–23, 335

  Baltimore, Md., 106, 385

  Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, 103–8, 105, 109

  banking industry, 26–27, 88, 93, 201, 212–13, 298, 305–8, 305, 359–60

  see also specific banks

  bank notes, 40–41, 90

  Bank of Augusta v. Earle, 88, 90, 97–103, 115, 132, 145–46, 181, 400

  Bank of England, 26–27

  Bank of North America, 5, 39

  Bank of the United States, First, xxi, xxiii, 31, 33, 35–44, 52–70, 52, 79, 87, 90, 107, 110, 180, 359, 392

  Bank of the United States, Second, 70, 88–
93, 89, 97–103, 132, 181

  Bank of the United States v. Deveaux, 36–70, 65, 74, 79, 83–87, 90, 97, 100, 101, 103, 106, 108, 125, 273, 274, 364, 392, 400

  Barron’s, 285

  baseball umpires, 356

  Baton Rouge, La., 235

  Baton Rouge Morning Advocate, 234–36, 237

  Beard, Charles A., 134–36

  Beard, Mary, 134–35

  beer companies, 223–26, 225, 238, 335

  Bellotti, Francis X., 310

  Berea College v. Kentucky, 221–22, 259, 272, 401

  Berkeley Hundred, 17

  Berle, Adolf A., Jr., xviii, 205, 270–71

  Bible, 47, 121, 260

  Biddle, Nelson, 93, 100

  Bill of Rights, 23, 164, 177, 240–41

  Bingham, John A., 134, 135

  Binney, Horace, xxii, 52–53, 52, 55–58, 59, 61, 62, 64, 66, 70, 74, 145, 167–68, 187, 262, 273, 344, 359, 364, 386, 392, 400

  Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act (2002), 219, 328–29, 334, 336, 337–38, 340, 341, 342, 344, 349–58, 361, 364, 365, 366, 371

  Birmingham, Ala., 257–58

  birth control, xvi–xvii, 379–82, 387

  Bishop, Joel Prentiss, 179

  Black, Hugo, 259, 265–73, 266, 275, 360

  Black, Jeremiah Sullivan, 149

  blackmail, 235–36

  Blackmun, Harry, 296–98, 313, 317, 318, 319

  Blackstone, William, 46–52, 46, 55, 56, 63, 64, 70, 78, 86, 115, 164, 166, 179, 188, 245, 369, 378, 399–400

  Blaine, James G., 123

  Blair, Margaret, 66

  Bluman v. Federal Election Commission, 368

  Body of Liberties (1641), 23–24, 25

  Boehner, John, 372

  book banning, 354–55

  Bopp, Jim, Jr., 325, 326, 336–44, 337, 347–52, 355, 357, 370, 375–76, 398, 438–41, 443

  Bork, Robert, 94

  “Bosses of the Senate, The,” (Keppler), 196–97, 196, 212

  Bossie, David, 327–30, 328, 334–35, 341–43, 348, 349, 351, 362, 363, 370, 438

  Boston, 77, 95–97, 211–12

  Boston Edison, 305

  Boston Tea Party (1773), 1, 25–31, 359–60, 400

 

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