> Corporations were accorded fourteenth amendment protections as "persons"
> (for some purposes) under Santa Clara v. Southern Pac. R.R., 118 U.S. 394
> (1896). The effect is to say they are entitled to due process and equal
> protection. Here are some cites:
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1886.
Ian
"The problem...of restraining corporate and individual combinations and monopolies, is the problem of restraining a species of communism; it is communism against communism, and the question is, how far communism ought to go in restraining communism. The general rule is that it ought not to go at all. The general rule is that commerce should be free... [Judge Seymour Thompson, 1891]