Corporations Are Not People
Why They Have More Rights Than You Do and What You Can Do About It

Wonderfully well argued, most helpful to me was Chapter Seven, where Clements outlines how we can create a lasting democracy and reinstitute the government by and for the people, remembering that corporations are tools and tools that whose owners and directors and executives and staffs and sharehold......more

This book can be divided into two main parts: the description of the problem and the prescription to fix the problem. The former is more persuasive than the latter. Jeffrey Clements is a former Attorney General from Massachusetts. He makes a solid case about the harm caused by the landmark Citizen’s......more

Although the author brings up many points that are undeniably true I don't think it was more than a rabble-rauzer. I read this for school and even in that context I felt like ok now that I am aware what should I do? Maybe its me, but I think as teenagers we all had this idea of "screw big business"......more

Citizens United, Corporate Personhood, and the Movement to Restore Political Power to the People If you’re like most Americans, you may think that the Supreme Court’s decision in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission is the root cause of the stranglehold on U.S. elections by major corporatio......more

This book is an eye-opener into the workings of the Supreme Court and activist judges like Lewis Powell, who began the push the idea that "corporations are people" while a corporate lawyer for the tobacco industry during the Nixon administration. The author is promoting the idea of a People's Rights......more