14th Amendment

Rkmickey at aol.com Rkmickey at aol.com
Tue May 18 15:09:11 PDT 1999


Michael Perelman <michael at ecst.csuchico.edu> wrote:


>I have my own 14 Amendment question: Louis Hacker said that the authors of
>the amendment were railroad attorneys who were intentionally lay the
>groundwork for the eventual interpretation of corporations as people.
>Does anyone have information on that subject?

Almost all successful lawyers in the 1860s were at times railroad attorneys. This certainly included all, or at least most of the attorneys elected to Congress. They probably meant to do at least some of what they did.

K.Mickey



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