{"product_id":"corporations-are-people-too-and-they-should-act-like-it-by-kent-greenfield","title":"Corporations Are People Too: (And They Should Act Like It) by Kent Greenfield","description":"\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eWhy we’re better off treating corporations as people under the law—and making them behave like citizens\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAre corporations people? The U.S. Supreme Court launched a heated debate when it ruled in \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eCitizens United\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e           that corporations can claim the same free speech rights as humans. Should they be able to claim rights of free speech, religious conscience, and due process? Kent Greenfield provides an answer: Sometimes.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eWith an analysis sure to challenge the assumptions of both progressives and conservatives, Greenfield explores corporations’ claims to constitutional rights and the foundational conflicts about their obligations in society and concludes that a blanket opposition to corporate personhood is misguided, since it is consistent with both the purpose of corporations and the Constitution itself that corporations can claim rights at least some of the time. The problem with \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eCitizens United\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e is not that corporations have a right to speak, but for whom they speak. The solution is not to end corporate personhood but to require corporations to act more like citizens.\u003c\/span\u003e","brand":"https:\/\/amzn.to\/2SEEnXP","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":36587678204063,"sku":"","price":10.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1914\/7141\/products\/719Px8fmGHL._AC_UY218.jpg?v=1602240638","url":"https:\/\/annointedhands.shop\/products\/corporations-are-people-too-and-they-should-act-like-it-by-kent-greenfield","provider":"ANNOINTEDHANDS ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}