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A Abuse commerce and monopoly, 81 –83 corporate of the Bill of Rights, 157 –60 during the Civil War, 88 –89 of power following of responsibility, 213 –14 of free trade and social change, 216 –18 of human rights, 20 –23, 110 local protection from corporate, 253 –54 of resources and impact on government, 41 –42 unemployment and child, 191 wealth and corporate, 82 –83 Accountability corporate avoidance of, 165 –68 social, 34 –36 for waste disposal, 38 –42 . See also Responsibility, corporate Acquisitions. See Mergers and acquisitions Adams, Abigail, 121 –23 Adams, John, 66 –67, 223, 226 Adams, Samuel, 53 Advertising advocacy, 233 –34 influencing public opinion and, 241 –42 information suppression, 235 media impact on health, 237 . See also Media Agriculture, 12, 164 Alarm, The, 56 –57 Alexander the Great, 27 –28, 211 Alternative Minimum Tax of 1986, 181 Amendments. See American Dream, reclaiming the, 211, 246 –47 American Revolution corporate power and the, 45 –46, 63 –64 democracy and the, 28 –29 Amin, Idi, 18 –20 Amnesty International, 21 Annan, Kofi, 149 Anthony, Susan B., 124, 281 –82 Anti-trust issues. See Mergers and acquisitions; Trusts Aristocracy decline of civilization and, 205 –11 fears of corporate, 82 –83 wealth and the rise of American, 70 –73 Arthur, Articles of Confederation, 64 Articles of incorporation, 3 –4. See also Incorporation Artificial persons. See Corporations Asimov, Isaac, 16 Associations, Trade. See Trusts Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD/ADHD), 2 Authority to create corporations, 30 fast-track, 140 –44, 274 to govern, 25 –29 of states to control corporations, 79 –81 Automotive safety and corporate values, 17, 186 B Banking industry as community resources, 40 job creation and the, 263 –64 |
Second Bank of the tax breaks and subsidies for, 182 United States Bank, 67, 81 –83 . See also World Bank Bankruptcy, 47 –48 Beliefs and values. See Values Berwind, Edward, 174 Bill of Rights corporate abuse of, 157 –60 development of, 70 –73 Fifth Amendment, 159 First Amendment, 29 campaign finance reform and, 131 corporate claims to, 120, 243 Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and the, 235 –36 lawsuits to intimidate, 171 –72 Fourth Amendment, 120 –21, 158 –59 protections in, 3 –4, 68 –69 Tenth Amendment, 66 . See also U.S. Constitution Bingham, John A., 110 –12 Biodiversity, loss of, 13 –14 Biotechnology, regulation of, 162 –64 Black, Hugo, 105, 249 Boards of directors, interlocking, 49, 201 –5 Bonaparte, Napoleon, 226 Boycotts, 55 –57. See also Protests Brandeis, Louis, 269 Brannan vs. Schartzer, 120 Brennan, William J., Jr., 238 Bretton Woods Agreement, 136 –38, 142. See also International trade Bribery and elimination of competition, 127 Broadcasting. See Media Brown, Hank, 141 –42 Bryan, William Jennings, 24, 95, 278 Burnside, Ambrose E., 87 Bush, George H. W., 138, 143, 162 Bush, George W., 226, 230, 242 –43 Bush, Jeb, 194 Business Bill of Rights abuses by, 157 –60 as a citizen, 213 –14 downtown vs. shopping malls, 258 –63 eliminating competition of small, 127 –31 forms of, 47 –48 military-industrial complex and, 152 –54 power over American life, 246 –47 regulation impact on small, 164 small vs. big, 213 –14, 243, 266 –68 taxation and subsidies, 173 –82 Business Week, 246 –47 Buying of the President, The, 182 C environmental protection in, 14 –15 privatization of electrical industry in, 194 redefining corporations, 6 rejecting corporate personhood in, 277 Campaign contributions corporate interests and, 221 –22 |