Two centuries of court rulings redefined the constitutional common good as corporate profit.
Evidence
While the U.S. Constitution makes no mention of corporations, according to anti-corporate analysts Richard Grossman and Frank Adams, “the history of Constitutional law is, as former Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter said, ‘the history of the impact of the modern corporation on the American scene.’” Over the course of two centuries of court decisions, corporate contracts and their rates of return have been redefined as property that should be protected under the Constitution. In this way the “common good” has been redefined as “maximum corporate production and profit.” — Winona LaDuke, All Our Relations, 980
Categorization
- XREF: Corporate ‘personhood’ jurisprudence connects directly to the Legal Systems course’s doctrinal history alongside Johnson v. M’Intosh land doctrine. — connects to: Since 1886 US courts have treated corporations as constitutional natural persons. — Winona LaDuke, All Our Relations: Native Struggles for…, 981; Who controls land destiny is a live question about wealth versus prayer throughout society — Winona LaDuke, All Our Relations: Native Struggles for…, 68; Powerful corporations have long used the Constitution to fight regulation — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 353 (+2 more)
Broader Connections
- Powerful corporations have long used the Constitution to fight regulation
#exemplifies(0.82) — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 353 - Economic justifications let financiers view profit-seeking as serving the common good
#corroborates(0.78) - A legal principle emerges from a long line of decisions.
#expands(0.75) — Ruggero J. Aldisert, Agatha D. Aldisert, Logic for Lawyers- A Guide to Clear…, 134