Unequal Protection

Contents......Page 8
Introduction: The Battle to Save Democracy......Page 10
Part I: Corporations Take Over......Page 22
CHAPTER 1 The Deciding Moment?......Page 23
CHAPTER 2 The Corporate Conquest of America......Page 58
Part II: From the Birth of American Democracy through the Birth of Corporate Personhood......Page 64
CHAPTER 3 Banding Together for the Common Good......Page 65
CHAPTER 4 The Boston Tea Party Revealed......Page 72
CHAPTER 5 Jefferson versus the Corporate Aristocracy......Page 93
CHAPTER 6 The Early Role of Corporations in America......Page 103
CHAPTER 7 The People’s Masters......Page 125
CHAPTER 8 Corporations Go Global......Page 139
CHAPTER 9 The Court Takes the Presidency......Page 161
CHAPTER 10 Protecting Corporate Liars......Page 171
CHAPTER 11 Corporate Control of Politics......Page 179
Part III: Unequal Consequences......Page 196
CHAPTER 12 Unequal Uses for the Bill of Rights......Page 197
CHAPTER 13 Unequal Regulation......Page 202
CHAPTER 14 Unequal Protection from Risk......Page 207
CHAPTER 15 Unequal Taxes......Page 215
CHAPTER 16 Unequal Responsibility for Crime......Page 226
CHAPTER 17 Unequal Privacy......Page 231
CHAPTER 18 Unequal Citizenship and Access to the Commons......Page 234
CHAPTER 19 Unequal Wealth......Page 246
CHAPTER 20 Unequal Trade......Page 258
CHAPTER 21 Unequal Media......Page 269
CHAPTER 22 Unequal Influence......Page 287
Part IV: Restoring Personhood to People......Page 294
CHAPTER 23 Capitalists and Americans Speak Out for Community......Page 295
CHAPTER 24 End Corporate Personhood......Page 299
CHAPTER 25 A New Entrepreneurial Boom......Page 306
CHAPTER 26 A Democratic Marketplace......Page 318
CHAPTER 27 Restoring Government of, by, and for the People......Page 324
Acknowledgments......Page 340
Notes......Page 343
Art Credits......Page 362
B......Page 363
C......Page 365
D......Page 367
E......Page 368
F......Page 369
G......Page 370
H......Page 371
J......Page 372
M......Page 373
N......Page 374
P......Page 375
R......Page 377
S......Page 378
T......Page 379
U......Page 380
W......Page 381
Z......Page 382
About the Author......Page 383