The First Amendment and the business corporation / Ronald J. Colombo.
2015
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Title
The First Amendment and the business corporation / Ronald J. Colombo.
Published
New York : Oxford University Press, [2015]
Copyright
©2015
Call Number
KF1416 .C65 2015
ISBN
9780199335671 ((hardback) : alk. paper)
0199335672 ((hardback) : alk. paper)
0199335672 ((hardback) : alk. paper)
Description
xx, 236 pages ; 24 cm
System Control No.
(OCoLC)873238315
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Purchased from the income of the Edith L. Fisch Fund
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The Arthur W. Diamond Law Library
Purchased from the income of the Edith L. Fisch Fund
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
xi
Introduction
xiii
1.
Associations and Freedom
1
Alexis de Tocqueville's Theory of Associations
3
"Political Associations"
4
The Effects of Association on Persons and Governments
6
Associations as a Check on Majoritarian Tyranny
8
James Madison and the Problem of Factions
11
Civil Associations
14
The Connection between Civil and Political Associations
16
Characteristics of the Tocquevillian Association
19
Modern Scholarly Treatment of Associations
20
The Supreme Court and Associations
24
2.
The Modern Business Corporation
29
The Premodern Corporation
30
Theoretical Understandings of the Premodern Corporation
33
The Corporation in Colonial America
37
The Advent of the Modern Corporation
39
Theoretical Conceptualizations of the Modern Corporation
42
Characteristics of the Modern Business Corporation
45
Separate Legal Personality
46
Limited Liability
46
Liquidity of Ownership and Perpetual Life
47
Separation of Ownership and Control
48
The Modern Corporation and the Tocquevillian Association
48
3.
The Postmodern Corporation
55
The Postmodern Corporation as Distinguished from a Modern Corporation
56
The Rise of the Postmodern Corporation
59
Corporate Social Responsibility
59
The Religiously Expressive Corporation
64
Coherent, Integrated Living
68
The Postmodern Corporation as a Tocquevillian Association
70
4.
Corporate Personhood, Rights, and Responsibilities
85
Corporate Personhood
86
Purely Personal Rights
91
Corporate Rights and Responsibilities
92
The Implications of Corporate Social Responsibility
93
Social Responsibility as Expression
99
5.
The First Amendment: Background
107
The Text
108
The Bill of Rights
109
The Freedoms of Assembly and Petition
110
Freedom of the Press
113
The Fourteenth Amendment
114
6.
The First Amendment: Freedom of Speech
119
What Is "Speech"?
120
Theories of the First Amendment
122
The Marketplace of Ideas and Political Speech
122
The Problem of Profit Maximization
124
Anti-Distortion Rationale
127
Listener Autonomy
129
Self-Realization
131
Commercial Speech
133
Corporate Speech
135
7.
The First Amendment: Freedom of Religion
139
Free Exercise Clause Background
140
"Tolerance" vs. "Liberty"
142
Conduct Protected
144
The Narrow Approach
145
The Discretionary Approach
146
The Broad Approach
147
Hybrid Claims
148
The Religious Freedom Restoration Act
150
Religious Liberty Summarized
151
The Associational Dimension of Religious Liberty
152
Distinguishing between the Individual's Right and that of the Association
155
Identifying a Right's Proper Claimant
156
Noteworthy Precedent
158
Recent Developments
164
8.
The First Amendment: Freedom of Association
177
Development of the Freedom of Association
177
The Postmodern Corporation and Expressive Association
182
9.
A Taxonomy of the Corporation
189
Corporate Diversity
190
Corporate Law
192
Securities Regulation
193
Employment Law
194
A Constitutional Taxonomy
195
The Modern Corporation
196
The Postmodern Corporation
200
The Religiously Expressive Corporation
202
The Closed Corporation
204
From Theory to Practice
208
10.
The Problem of Discrimination
213
Conclusion
223
Index
227