How Corporations Took Over the First Amendment

How Corporations Took Over the First Amendment ( theatlantic.com )

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How Corporations Took Over the First Amendment - The Atlantic

'To determine the most-frequent beneficiaries of First Amendment, Coates analyzed the 423 Supreme Court cases between 1946 and 2014 that dealt with questions of speech. '

'If Corporations Are People, They Should Act Like It To arrive at this decision, the Court wasn’t relying on some obscure bit of corporate law; it was relying on the First Amendment. '

'The Percentage of First Amendment Cases Involving Businesses, 1946-2001 The large jump in the 1970s came shortly after Justice Lewis Powell joined the Supreme Court. '

'Coates’s work is a reminder, in a decade when Citizens United is many Americans’ foremost association with corporate speech, not to forget what corporations have and haven’t been allowed to do since 1789. '

'But in another sense, the decision wasn’t a victory at all. '

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