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封面
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More Praise for Corporations Are Not People
For Bob Clements
Preface to this Second Edition
Preface to the First Edition
Foreword Fighting Back Bill Moyers
Introduction What’s at Stake?
Chapter One American Democracy Works and Corporations Fight Back
The Impact of Citizens United
The Citizens United Decision
The Initial Response
Roots of Citizens United: Earth Day 1970
1971: Lewis Powell and the “Activist-Minded Supreme Court”
Powell and the Tobacco Corporations Show the Way
1972: Powell Gets His Chance
Here Come the Foundations
The Consequences
The Lost Promise of Earth Day
Chapter Two Corporations Are Not People—and They Make Lousy Parents
Beyond Beer Labels
The Right to Addict Kids
Why Did We Need a School Playground Cigarette Law?
Cigarette Corporations Aren’t People
Monsanto: Secret Genetically Modified Food
Corporate Rights Weaken People and Citizenship
Learning to Be Corporate
On to College: The Subprime Student Loan Game
Chapter Three If Corporations Are Not People What Are They?
Metaphor Marches On
What Is a Corporation?
Delaware Cannot Rewrite the Constitution
The Right Thing in the Wrong Place
The Southern Pacific Case
Citizens United: Corporations Back on the Track People to the Back
Chapter Four Corporations Don’t Vote; They Don’t Have To
“When It Bites You in the Butt You Bleed”
What about Union Spending?
What Corporations Get for the Money
Corporate Power Drives Deficits and Debt
Corporations in the Health Care Business Pervert Reform to Preserve Profits
The Human Cost
Beyond Health Care
Energy Deficits and the National Interest
Corporate Power Blocks Alternatives
Symbolic of Our Fall: Mountaintop Removal
Chapter Five Did Political Inequality and Corporate Power Destroy the Working American Economy?
Entrenched Corporations Gain Inefficient Advantage
Jobs Taxes and Wealth
Corporations People and Taxes
CEO Pay Political Spending and Corporate Government
The Intermingled Elite and the Economic Crisis
Chapter Six Corporations Can’t Love
Virtue Patriotism and the Corporation
Crime and Punishment
Crime and the Corporate Charter
Too Big to Tell the Truth
The Consequences of Corporate Amorality and Crime
Chapter Seven Restoring Democracy and Republican Government
Step 1: The Constitutional Foundation
Why a Constitutional Amendment Effort?
What’s the Strategy and Where Do We Stand?
Resolve to Succeed
How Will the Amendment Be Worded?
Step 2: Clean the Swamp: Self-Government and Free Fair Elections
Step 3: Reforming the Corporation
Principle 1: Incorporation Is a Privilege
Principle 2: Incorporation Is a National or International Matter
Chapter Eight Do Something
We the People: The Constitutional Foundation
Cleaning the Swamp: Elections and Government for People
Making Corporations Better and Accountable
Resources
People’s Rights Amendment
Amendment XXVIII
Citizens’ Equality Amendment
We the People Amendment
Sample Amendment Resolution
Questions and Answers about the Twenty-Eighth Amendment
Free Speech For People and Appalachian Voices’ Request for Revocation of Massey Energy Company Charters
Sources and Recommended Reading
Index
About the Author
Berrett-Koehler
BK
