Original Writings on Topics Relevant to the Community Rights Movement

Corporations and Natural Rights

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 [...]

Tom Paine on Corporate Charters

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 [...]

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