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"Three Justices of the Supreme Court who ruled in support of <i>Santa Clara</i>
had ties to Ohio. They were Chief Justice Morrison Waite from Toledo,
William Woods of Newark, and Stanley Matthews from Cincinnati. Prior
to serving on the Supreme Court, Waite had been the attorney for several
large railroad corporations while Matthews had been an attorney for the
Cincinnati, Hamilton and Dayton railroad corporation."
<br>---Citizens Over Corporations p.34, Ohio Program on Corporations Law
and Democracy, editiors, 1999.
<p>Mike, just the tip of the iceberg and not over-stated.
<p>Michael Perelman wrote:
<blockquote TYPE=CITE>Here is what I have from Hacker.
<p>Hacker, Louis, M. 1940. The Triumph of American Capitalism: The Development
of
<br>Forces in American History to the End of the Nineteenth Century (New
York: Simon and
<br>Schuster).
<br> 387: 14th Amendment, drawn up by congressional Joint
Committee of Fifteen, of
<br>which Radicals dominated. Unlike other amendments contained more
than 1
<br>proposition. Section 1 was much like old Civil Rights Law, but
it contained a
<br>clause "nor shall any state deprive any person of life, liberty or
property without
<br>due process of law; nor deny any person within its jurisdiction the
equal protection
<br>of the laws." Roscoe Conkling, a member of Joint Committee, said
that law was
<br>intended to protect property rights against state legislatures, thus
purposely
<br>written "due process" and "equal protection". see Graham, H. J. "The
'Conspiracy
<br>Theory' of the Fourteenth Amendment." Yale Law Journal, vol. xlvii
(1938), p.
<br>171-94.
<p>--
<p>Michael Perelman
<br>Economics Department
<br>California State University
<br>michael@ecst.csuchico.edu
<br>Chico, CA 95929
<br>530-898-5321
<br>fax 530-898-5901</blockquote>
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