This article by Jane Anne Morris (DemocracyThemePark.org) was originally published in the Fall 1996 edition of Democracy Unlimited News Dispatch (in Wisconsin), and later reprinted in Defying Corporations, Defining Democracy. Who spends the most time in federal courts complaining that their “due process” and “equal protection under the law” rights have been violated? Pushy women? Uppity Blacks? Gray [...]
This 1996 article by Jane Anne Morris was published on her website, DemocracyThemePark.org, in 2014. Part 2: Corporations for the Seventh Generation In view of the historic provisions noted in Part I that used to govern corporations, their representatives must be pleased that at least in this country, boycotts and divestment strategies are considered radical, and “dialoging” is the preferred [...]
This 1996 article by Jane Anne Morris was published on her website, DemocracyThemePark.org, in 2014. Part 1: Legacy Of The Founding Parents The people who founded this nation didn’t fight a war so that they could have a couple of “citizen representatives” sitting in on meetings of the British East India Company. They carried out a revolution in [...]
When the Program on Corporations, Law and Democracy first launched its historically groundbreaking work in the early 1990's to help US'ians to try to understand why our citizen activism was so incredibly ineffective, and what were the structural causes that made it that way, one of the very first things they published and widely distributed was this [...]
Bruce Johansen's book, originally published in 1982, is now out of print, but can be read in its entirety HERE. Here's an excerpt from the book's Introduction: This book has two major purposes. First, it seeks to weave a few new threads into the tapestry of American revolutionary history, to begin the telling of a larger [...]
The Modern Corporate State: Private Governments & the American Constitution was written by Arthur Selwyn Miller and published in 1976. "Toward a Definition of the Corporate State" is the title of Chapter Two, which you can read HERE. It was published online by Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund.
Everyman's Constitution: Historical Essays on the 14th Amendment, The "Conspiracy Theory", and American Constitutionalism, was written by Howard Jay Graham, and published in 1968. A portion of the book was reprinted online by Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund, including the Foreword, Author's Preface, and the first two chapters. To review this excerpt, click HERE.
Famous author and historian Charles Beard wrote these words in 1936, in Chapter 1 of “Jefferson, Corporations and the Constitution” originally published in The Virginia Quarterly Review. Here's a brief excerpt: ... Now there is abroad in the country a common theory to the effect that the American Revolution was made and the Constitution established [...]
HERE is a much more thorough resource than you are likely to find elsewhere, to help you more deeply understand what each of the first ten amendments (the Bill of Rights) to the US Constitution actually means, the legal cases related to it, and much more.
An excerpt from Thomas Paine's writings on Corporations and Charters in The Rights of Man - from Common Sense, Rights of Man, and Other Essential Writings of Thomas Paine (pages 330-331). An apt informal title given to this excerpt by Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund: "Corporate Charters Deny Rights to All While Granting Privileges to [...]