The Civic Crime Of Ordinary People
October 26, 2016
Alexander Hamilton, Astra Taylor, Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton, Occupy Wall Street, The Anti-Democratic Urge, The Tea Party, Thomas Jefferson2 Comments
While I support Hillary Clinton for president of the United States, it’s a fair question to ask how she and her opponent, having among the lowest approval ratings in history for the office, came to be the sole survivors vying for this high office. What does their ascendancy say ab
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September 23, 2016
14th Amendment, Astra Taylor, chief justce Morrison Waite, Citizens United, Community Evironment Legal Defense Fund, corporations as persons, Grant Township, Pennsylvania General Engergy Company, Who Speaks for the Trees?
Under the law corporations are people, right? That ruling, by the way, wasn’t the outcome of Citizen’s United. It appeared in the 1886 case of Santa Clara vs. Southern Pacific Railroad Co. While the Supreme Court didn’t settle the railroad case on the question of personhoo
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