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The Corpration
What was perticularly grotesque about this (the 14th amendment, B.G.), is that the 14th amendment was passed to protect newly-freed slaves. So, for instance, between 1890 and 1910, there were 307 cases brought before the court under the 14th amendment. 288 of these brought by corporations, 19 by African Americans.
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600,000 people were killed to get rights for people, and then with strokes of a pen, over the next 30 years, judges apply those rights to capital and property while stripping them from people.