Corporation
idea · 1 work · 3 mentions · 8 anchored passages
corporation · corporations · bodies politick · corporate wealth · hierarchy
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1 expressionCorporations1 mention
Construction Construed and Constitutions Vindicated (English)
The court asserts, that congress by creating corporations may diminish or destroy the state resource for raising revenue, co-extensively with its own pleasure.
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Construction Construed and Constitutions Vindicated
The legal category of chartered bodies politick, treated by the narrator as an innately dangerous instrument of sovereignty capable of corrupting liberty when created without clear constitutional authorization.
The English dictionaries, in accordance with their intention and effects, define corporations to be “bodies politick.
Though the same word may have been applied to sectional divisions for sustaining civil government, and also to “bodies politick” for altering civil government, it does not confound things so different in their nature, and only proves that our language, participating in some degree of the hieroglyphical defects of the Chinese, has often but one word to convey ideas, extremely distinct.
By incorporations, great bodies politick, whole parties, and entire states, may be degraded into clientage, and bribed to obedience;