Quote #16

The broadening of the economic order which came to be seated in the individual property owner: dramatized by Jefferson's purchase of the Louisiana Territory: 'The supremacy of corporate economic power: consolidated by the Supreme Court decision of 1886 which declared that the Fourteenth Amendment protected the corporation: [the New Deal, leading to], within the political arena, as well as in the corporate world itself, competing centers of power that challenged those of the corporate directors.

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