Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2018
ISSN
68047
Publisher
Boston University School of Law
Language
en-US
Abstract
Adam Winkler’s book We the Corporations: How American Businesses Won Their Civil Rights is an impressive work on several different levels. Because so much of the development of American constitutional law over the centuries has involved businesses, the book is a nearly comprehensive legal history of federal constitutional law. It certainly would be worthwhile reading for anyone interested in the constitutionality of economic regulation in the United States, spanning the controversies over the first and second Banks of the United States, through the Lochner era and present-day clashes over corporate campaign spending, and religiously-based exemptions to generally applicable laws such as the requirement that employer-offered health insurance policies cover birth control.
Recommended Citation
Jack M. Beermann,
Corporate Personhood and the History of the Rights of Corporations: A Reflection on Adam Winkler’s Book We the Corporations: How American Businesses Won Their Civil Rights
,
in
98
Boston University Law Review
32
(2018).
Available at:
https://scholarship.law.bu.edu/faculty_scholarship/1933
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