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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsA country run by corporations and churches is not a country of the people,
by the people, for the people.
Le Taz Hot
(22,271 posts)the second a theocracy -- a far cry from the Democratic Republic we're supposed to have but THANKS TO BOTH PARTIES who court both almost exclusively, that's what we've ended up with.
But unfortunately, the propagandized call it freedom. Freedom in chains I suppose.
lunatica
(53,410 posts)We've been living in a made up world that says we're the World's Greatest (fill in the blank here) in history.
mmonk
(52,589 posts)Selatius
(20,441 posts)But, none of the Founders bought that argument. It was one of the reasons for the Revolution. There were plenty of reasons for rebelling against the English Crown. One of the aggravating reasons was that Parliament granted the British East India Company a monopoly on the sale of tea to the Thirteen Colonies. They were free to gouge Americans at their leisure, and this was made possible after much lobbying by representatives of the East India Company of British Parliament and the royal family.
In fact, because of the distrust of corporations built up under English rule, the first century of the Republic saw very stringent controls on what a corporation could and couldn't do, including the length of time a corporation could remain in existence and the terms that a corporation is to be disbanded. The corporation that was chartered to build the Eerie Canal was disbanded after the canal was built, for instance. Under American law at the time, corporations were creatures of the legislature that established them and were subject to legislative action. It wasn't until after the American Civil War that captains of industry started pressing their advantage to loosen restriction, after having witnessed that their production might helped win the Civil War.
All corporate charters had a shelf life back then.
fasttense
(17,301 posts)libtodeath
(2,888 posts)would recoil in horror if they were alive.