Powerful corporations have long used the Constitution to fight regulation

Evidence

This is one respect in which the surveillance capitalists are not unprecedented. Adam Winkler, a historian of corporate rights, reminds us, “Throughout American history the nation’s most powerful corporations have persistently mobilized to use the Constitution to fight off unwanted government regulations.” Although today’s mobilizations are not original, Winkler’s careful account demonstrates the effects of past mobilizations on the distribution of power and wealth in US society and the strength of democratic values and principles in each era. — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 353

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Corporate attorneys harnessed the Fourteenth Amendment to strengthen business interests — Nikole Hannah-Jones et al., The 1619 Project: A New American Origin…, 551; Two centuries of court rulings redefined the constitutional common good as corporate profit. — Winona LaDuke, All Our Relations: Native Struggles for…, 980; Since 1886 US courts have treated corporations as constitutional natural persons. — Winona LaDuke, All Our Relations: Native Struggles for…, 981 (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• Corporate attorneys harnessed the Fourteenth Amendment to strengthen business interests #exemplifies (0.92) — Nikole Hannah-Jones et al., The 1619 Project, 551