A Civil Rights Movement for Corporations? Inside the 400-Year Struggle
April 16, 2018
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as posted by the channelUCLA Law School Professor Adam Winkler talks about the under-the-radar civil rights movement corporations fought in the American legal system over hundreds of years.
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"The movement and struggle to win rights for corporations," says UCLA Law School Professor Adam Winkler, is "one of the least well-known yet most successful civil rights movements in American history."
An important chapter in that history came in 2010, when the Supreme Court ruled it unconstitutional to keep corporations from spending money on political ads right before an election. Many liberal advocacy groups were outraged over Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission. Last year, U.S. Senators Tom Udall (D–N.M.) and Martin Heinrich (D–N.M.) introduced a constitutional amendment that would overturn the decision.
In a new book, We the Corporations: How American Businesses Won Their Civil Rights, Winkler challenges the conventional wisdom about Citizens United. He complicates the narrative about America's founding, too.
Interview by Paul Detrick. Edited by Detrick. Shot by Zach Weismuller and Alexis Garcia.
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