General incorporation laws dissolved a major instrument of social control

Evidence

In older days incorporation was a privilege, in the genuine sense of depending upon a special grant from the kini, or later the legislature; and the giving of the privilege to some .4hile withholding it from others represented a technique of social control of enormous consequence. With the advent of modern general incorporation laws, this technique has become largely obsolete. — Henry M. Hart, Jr. and Albert M. Sacks, The Legal Process, 4449

Categorization

• SEED: The idea that the privilege of incorporation historically functioned as a technique of social control, rendered obsolete by general laws, could make a compact essay on what replaced that control technique.
• XREF: connects to: Individuals routinely have law made for them without personal consent in our legal system. — Henry M. Hart, Jr. and Albert M. Sacks, The Legal Process: Basic Problems in…, 4407; Formal equality is the only equality any legal system can guarantee — Henry M. Hart, Jr. and Albert M. Sacks, The Legal Process: Basic Problems in…, 4437; Great Society programs functioned as top-down incorporation rather than radical empowerment (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• Great Society programs functioned as top-down incorporation rather than radical empowerment #corroborates (0.75)
• Dominant groups switch from paternalism to reason-based ideology when segregation replaces personal control #qualifies (0.72)