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The Personhood Paradox: Citizens United As Rejection Of Corporate Personhood?, Stefan J. Padfield

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This ConLawNOW submission is an excerpt from a previously published piece. The following abstract is from that piece.

UCLA Law Professor Adam Winkler has published an excellent book on the history of corporate rights. The book, We the Corporations: How American Businesses Won Their Civil Rights, “reveals the secret history of one of America’s most successful yet least-known ‘civil rights movements’—the centuries-long struggle for equal rights for corporations.” The book has been highly praised by some of the greatest minds in corporate and constitutional law, and the praise is well-deserved. However, the book is not without its controversial assertions, …