We the Corporations Quotes

“A Constitution, from its nature, deals in generals, not in detail. Its framers cannot perceive minute distinctions which arise in the progress of the nation, and therefore confine it to the establishment of broad and general principles.” The purpose of diversity jurisdiction under Article III was to protect people against potentially parochial and biased state courts.”
― Adam Winkler, We the Corporations: How American Businesses Won Their Civil Rights

“he knew that even the most compelling logic falters if it defies common sense.”
― Adam Winkler, We the Corporations: How American Businesses Won Their Civil Rights

“Dartmouth was, however, formed as a corporation, and the central question in the college’s case had a direct bearing on all corporations, business or otherwise: Are corporations public or private? Are they public entities subject to broad governmental control? Or are they private entities over which the state has only limited regulatory authority? Today, we take for granted that corporations are private entities. In the early 1800s, however, the question of whether corporations were public or private remained unsettled. Webster’s Dartmouth College case would largely settle it.”
― Adam Winkler, We the Corporations: How American Businesses Won Their Civil Rights