ENGAGE US #12: Challenging Corporate Authority
 
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We are looking for people to invest time, energy and resources challenging judicial doctrines dealing with the commerce clause, personhood, the business judgment rule, the prudent man rule, managerial prerogative and corporate property rights. Who fancy extending the Bill of Rights to employees on company grounds; amending state corporation codes to end limited liability and to ban corporations from owning other corporations; excluding business corporations and their trade associations from elections, lawmaking, education and public debate over community values, legal philosophy and policy.

Activists will need to do what corporate strategists have mastered: exploit the tensions of our federal system by creating crises of jurisdiction and authority between local, state and federal government.

All this and more will happen as communities reject the idea that business corporations are private; as municipalities enact local ordinances defining corporations within their jurisdictions; as organized people instruct elected representatives to cease aiding and abetting corporate rule.