Minneapolis & St. Louis Railway v. Beckwith: Corporate Personhood Doctrine Becomes Settled Law
The Supreme Court formally declared corporate personhood as settled constitutional law, with Justice Stephen Field writing that “Corporations are persons within the meaning of the clauses in the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution concerning the deprivation of property, and concerning the …
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