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Brian SmallOurs was a flawed sovereignty from the beginning. Because of its moral failings and structural inequities, whole classes of people had to organize and struggle over centuries to gain recognition as part of the sovereign people—that is, they had to get strong enough as a class to define themselves and not let either people or institutions define them: African Americans, native peoples,women, debtors, indentured servants, immigrants...To this day, many still must struggle to exercise the rights of persons, to be recognized as persons by law and by society.Throughout this nation's history, there has always been plenty of genuflecting to democracy and self-governance. But the further each generation gets from the Revolution, the less the majority act like sovereign people. And when it comes to establishing the proper relationship between sovereign people and the corporations we create, recent generations seem to be at a total loss.Yet, earlier generations were quite clear that a corporation was an artificial, subordinate entity with no inherent rights of its own, and that incorporation was a privilege bestowed by the sovereign. In 1834, for example, the Pennsylvania Legislature declared:"A corporation in law is just what the incorporation act makes it. It is the creature of the law and may be moulded to any shape or for any purpose the Legislature may deem most conducive for the common good." - https://www.poclad.org/BWA/1998/BWA_1998_SUMMER.html
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