Corporate Relations: A Literary Exploration by Jena Osman

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Corporate Relations by Jena Osman (Burning Deck, paperback)

Publication Date: April 15, 2014

Publisher Marketing: Poetry. Fiction. A look at the constitutional history of corporate personhood in the United States. Although the Supreme Court Case Citizens United vs. United States has recently brought this issue into the spotlight, the concept of granting Constitutional rights to corporate entities began soon after the Civil War. CORPORATE RELATIONS tracks the constitutional rights granted to corporations, culling language from landmark Supreme Court cases. At the same time it investigates a shaky analogy: if corporations are persons, what are persons? machines?

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