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(28,656 posts) Mon Nov 5, 2018, 11:38 PM Nov 2018

What the Founding Fathers really thought about Corporations...

https://hbr.org/2010/04/what-the-founding-fathers-real.html

Yep, they were very wary about how corporations could subvert Democracy. A good read and something to share...

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What the Founding Fathers really thought about Corporations... (Original Post) OAITW r.2.0 Nov 2018 OP

This message was self-deleted by its author Varaddem Nov 2018 #1

That is your take? OAITW r.2.0 Nov 2018 #2

You put it much better than I could. Varaddem Nov 2018 #3

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OAITW r.2.0

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2. That is your take?

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Tue Nov 6, 2018, 12:32 AM

Nov 2018

I think corporations, which were in its infancy, when the USA was founded as a Constitutional Democracy, was seen as a threat to our very existence. The Founding Fathers wanted total oversight over there activities and realized, by definition, that a corporation had no particular allegiance to any governmental entity.

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3. You put it much better than I could.

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Tue Nov 6, 2018, 01:13 AM

Nov 2018

With the founding fathers to be able to foresee the damages to democracy that corporations could do testifies to their brilliance . And that was before corporations Were built solely for profit. I don’t think they saw their court siding with.....Corruption?

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