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Do Corporations Have Religious Beliefs?, Jason Iuliano
Do Corporations Have Religious Beliefs?, Jason Iuliano
Indiana Law Journal
Despite two hundred years of jurisprudence on the topic of corporate personhood, the Supreme Court has failed to endorse a philosophically defensible theory of the corporation. In this Article, I attempt to fill that void. Drawing upon the extensive philosophical literature on personhood and group agency, I argue that corporations qualify as persons in their own right. This leads me to answer the titular question with an emphatic yes. Contrary to how it first seems, that conclusion does not warrant granting expansive constitutional rights to corporations. It actually suggests the opposite. Using the Affordable Care Act’s contraception mandate as a …
Constitutional Aspects Of The New Deal, Floyd E. Thompson
Constitutional Aspects Of The New Deal, Floyd E. Thompson
Indiana Law Journal
Address of Hon. Floyd E. Thompson, of the Chicago Bar, formerly Justice of the Supreme Court of Illinois and President of the Illinois State Bar Association, at the Mid-Winter meeting of the Indiana State Bar Association, February 1, 1936.