What The Founding Fathers Thought About Corporations

Stephen D. Foster Jr.
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August 26, 2011

Citizens United. This is the 2010 Supreme Court case that shocked America, influenced an election, and reversed over 100 years of campaign finance laws. In this case, corporations were declared as people and as such declared to have the same rights as people do. It also opened the doors for corporations to pour unprecedented amounts of campaign donations into elections, and what’s more, these donations can be totally secret. Corporations can now literally and legally buy elections and shape the government like never before in our nation’s history.

The economic world we live in today is dominated by corporations. Huge corporations that boast massive profits and span continents. But corporations also wield political power and are lobbying heavily to be free from any and all government regulations that would make them responsible and liable. Republicans have been defending corporations since the late 1800′s and have literally gone on a history revising crusade to show that even the founding fathers supported corporations. But is this the case? What did the founders really think about corporations?

The origin of modern corporations can be traced all the way back to 17th century England when Queen Elizabeth I created the East India Trading Company. At first, corporations were small, quasi government institutions that were chartered by the crown for a specific purpose. If corporations stepped out of line, the crown did not hesitate to revoke their charters. Corporations generated so much revenue that they even began taking on increased political power. Corporations were also organized to finance large projects such as exploration, which leads us to the American colonies.

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22 Responses to “What The Founding Fathers Thought About Corporations”

  1. The problem, and I’m sure they know, is with all the lawlessness and overturning the Constitution, all law and order goes out the window. Then you have chaos.

    However, the founders rejected the laws imposed by King of England, but maintained their own sense of right and wrong. So today as chaos descends WE ARE FREE to throw off their “Political Correctness”. The mind and social-political controls are gone and we are again free to fight for real values.

    Alex was right on by stating that we must go on “gut feelings” or intuition.

    In the past there was mere survival.
    Survival was replace by morals and later spiritual laws.
    The morals were replaced by goverment laws.
    All laws are currently being replaced by lawless power.
    Lawless power will fall to initiative knowledge or “going by your gut instinct”.

    —The top elite, understand this.—

  2. The East India Company is nothing but pirates of the Caribbean on Her Majesty Secret Service. It started in the 1500- raiding Spanish vessels coming from American colonies loaded with new world treasures and gold. PIRATES TURNED MERCHANTS! PIRATES TURNED BANKSTERS! PIRATES TURNED CORPORATIONS!

  3. i say we are heading towards the oblivion of no return! we are doom! ron paul could save (US)A!

  4. Well, look at the way Amerika turned out! Attacking Libya using lies deceits! It’s extraordinary that it could be the fault from a deeper look at the facts hidden by the founding fathers who were possibly errant from the beginning, gone aside from loving Jesus to worshipping Satan secretly?!

    Well certainly afterwards up through to today!

    Witchcraft was brought into Amerika early in Jamestown by way of London which is a center for their cults to this day!

    – But thank Heaven for Jesus who loves us all and delivers from death if you decide to pray to receive and believe in His thoughts not your own! clic my name and see issue guide to speak to Jesus today! he’s alive willing to meet you in prayer in reading there!

    Jesus speaks through His Word to comfort feeble minded men willing to humble their pride and come to rest in His strong loving arms! Jesus can take anything except your doubts fears! So come See that the Lord is good!

  5. Yes and then the freemason Andrew Jackson had the great American warrior David Crockett massacre a village of indians who were doing nothing but living in peace as they did before the settlers came for hundreds of years. Jackson was in bed with the timber companys who wanted the lush stand of timber the indians lived on. So he lied and told Crockett that they were going to have and uprising and so Crockett and his Tennesse boys went in there and wiped the village out. Davy said it was a and easy kill ,no resistance ,in fact he mentions in his diarys ,where this info comes from,that he remembered and old indian woman trying to pull a bow back with her feet.Crockett when he found out the truth was devistated and left Tennesse because of it .The remains of murdered children found at Ben Franklins house? Dated to have been murdered at the time Franklin lived at the house? Sacrificed to Molech! Along with the remains of children were also found adults and animal remains?!Ever google image search George Washingtons apron? See it marred with the freemason compass and square?See the statue of Helios,Apollo,the beast of Revelation:9 standing in New York harbor,with the dedication plaque marred with the freemason square and compass which is really the six pointed star of the Rothschild coat of arms? The great seal of the United States of America is the six pointed freemason sqaure and compass,as is the seal of the supreme court,made out of smaller pentagrams.The Rothschild/Gates/Winfrey funded cult of Nephilim demon worshipers ,the Raelians use this symbol also. Solar flare coming,Revelation 8:7 ,Revelation 16:8 ,Nibiru Revelation 8:10, it is the red dragon of Revelation :12..The return of the Anunnaki/Nephilim demons Joel 2:1-11,Revelation:9. More earthquakes of much larger scale coming,the solar flare will burn the earth severly ,millions and millions will perish and the freemasons that own Nasa know it.The elites including the marianette Obama and much of the congress and senate know about Nibiru .They are counting on the event wiping a lot of us out. Kind of a freebee to there eugenics ,population reduction program. See the Denver international airport marred with the freemason compass and square? Then take a look at what is below the Denver airport? And ellaborate underground city? Built by the Nephilim rulers to scurry into when Nibiru passes. And look there is Anubis the Nephilim god of the underworld standing guard above there sanctuary above the Denver airport? DO YOU ACTUALLY THINK THAT THE FOUNDING SO CALLED FATHERS WERENT MOLECH WORSHIPERS?! GWBush in his enaugeral speach said that the dream of the founders ,there dream of the new order of the ages(Novus Ordo Seclorum) will be achieved,THATS WHAT HE SAID! Give me a break,this cult,THE BROTHERHOOD OF THE SNAKE,goes back to the days of ancient Babylon,thats why they worship the gods of Babylon,the gods of the Sumarians who were the fallen angels and there satanic spawn the Nephilim,its the whole truth and nothing but the truth,you will see,Jesus Christ is Lord , nibirupedia.com

    • GOOGLE SEARCH THE BROTHERHOOD OF THE SNAKE, William Bramely the gods of Eden,it is the oldest cult on the facew of the earth ,and the socalled founders belonged to it as did and do ,all the bloodlines of the Caesars/Czars/Kaisers/Nephilim

  6. I’m a veteran and I’m the “BAD’” guy!!! Butt hey, STFU already and Smedley Butler was a Communist!!! PHK’n Americans have “NO” balls”!!! Prove me wrong cuz’ I get dogged for holden’ my ground!!! Yeah America where’s those balls now??? Or is Aspartame and Flouride soup of the day??? Or is Lemonade Stands the goin’ thang??? Can’t wait much longer!!! My daughter WILL NOT be subjected to this shiite!!! Patrick Henry

    “All ‘HAIL’ Thermal Expansion!!!”

    HillbillyJihad TheBubbaLiberationFront!!!

    • I’m waiting for a group to assemble and take down someone or some persons of power, then I’ll join in. I won’t do it by myself and sacrifice my life for these stupid sheep who won’t appreciate it, or understand it until they are all locked in FEMA camps.

  7. The founding fathers were masonic frauds.

    • Thomas Jefferson also worked the plan of getting the Indians in debt so theyd have ta give up their lands for payment. When the ‘Americans’ went westward and warred on the Indians in the Ohio River Valley ( Ohio, Kentucky, parts of Tennesee, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan ) that era was the United States’ real beginning of a ‘foreign policy’ to war on another set of peoples outside the United States of America. Since then its never stopped. It went to the Pacific. Then Hawaii was taken over.

      • LOL! YUP! They have been doing it since the beginning of time . The revolutionary war was purposely tanked by the Brits ,as to rule the colonies in secret ,through there cult of freemasonry. We need to look closer at the history of the founding of theis United States.The Salem witch hunts,

    • (in part)

      ” Jefferson first instructed his agents to persuade Indians to adopt agriculture. That new way of life, the agents explained, would require less land than hunting. With no need for their vast forests, the Indians were encouraged to sell their uncultivated territories for 25 cents per acre, the profits of which Indian farmers could use to purchase agricultural tools and manufactured goods. To stimulate Indian consumerism, Jefferson increased the number of government trading houses located near Native villages, arguing publicly that the establishments enabled Indians to share in the fruits of white “civilization.” But it was a ploy. His real motive, he confided in 1803, was to lure Indians into spending themselves into debt, obligations that would be paid off through the sale of tribal lands.”.

      west gatehouse.com/art263.html

  8. It used to be there were two great dangers to liberty. Government and corporations.

    While the left was occupied with the crimes of corporations and supportive of increasing the powers of government the right was occupied with the crimes of government and supportive of increasing the powers of corporations.

    It now seems corporations have taken over government and subjected it to their will and we have one great beast devouring us.

    The answer is still individual liberty.

    .

  9. “You are a den of vipers and thieves. I intend to rout you out, and by the grace of the Eternal God, will rout you out.”
    -Andrew Jackson

    “The people have always some champion whom they set over them and nurse into greatness…This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs; when he first appears he is a protector.”
    -Plato

    “Of all tyrannies, a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.”
    –C.S. Lewis

    “The tyranny of a prince in an oligarchy is not so dangerous to the public welfare as the apathy of a citizen in a democracy.”

    “The bold effort the present central bank had made to control the government are but premonitions of the fate that await the American people should they be deluded into a perpetuation of this institution or the establishment of another like it.”
    -Andrew Jackson

    “The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.”
    -Plato

    Who will rise up for me against the evildoers? or who will stand up for me against the workers of iniquity? ―Psalm 94:16

    A great revolution in just one single individual will help achieve a change in the destiny of a society and, further, will enable a change in the destiny of humankind.

    “I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation. We must always take sides. Neutrality never helps victims, only the oppressor. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.”
    -Elie Wiesel

    “Whenever you decide that you are on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.”
    -Mark Twain

    “Apathy is the glove in which evil slips it’s hand.”

    “Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.”

    “All that is required for evil to flourish in the world is for good men to do nothing.”

    “Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death!”
    -Patrick Henry

    “Forewarned is forearmed.”

    “It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.”
    -Aristotle

    “The Bible is the rock on which this Republic rests.”
    -Andrew Jackson

    “Government “help” to business is just as disastrous as government persecution… the only way a government can be of service to national prosperity is by keeping its hands off.”
    -Ayn Rand

    “If there is no absolute by which to judge society then society becomes absolute”
    -Dr. Francis Schaeffer

    “The hottest place in hell is reserved for those who never spoke up in times of moral injustice.”

    “It is the first responsibility of every citizen to question authority.”
    -Benjamin Franklin

    “Liberty vs. tyranny, not left vs. right.”

    “Beneath this mask there is more than flesh. Beneath this mask there is an idea, Mr. Creedy, and ideas are bulletproof.”

    “Cowardice asks the question, is it safe? Expedience asks the question is it politic? Vanity asks the question, is it popular? But conscience asks the question, is it right? And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but he must do it because conscience tells him it is right.”

    “How fortunate for governments that the people they administer don’t think.”
    -Adolf Hitler

    “Forewarned is forearmed.”

  10. theyd probably had exiled or killed the banksters by now.

    • Like Thomas Jefferson, who actually killed a man on the White House lawn for treason? You’re damn right they would’ve killed the banksters by now!

      • TJ also raped his slaves. Truth is a bitch.

        • Edit to add that was not a personal insult, Truth Monger, just a coincidence of name and phrase, my bad, no insult was intended.

        • Evidently you were there. Or perhaps you believe the current attacks on the founding of the republic. Could it possibly have been consensual? I sure as hell don’t know! However, I won’t dismiss the man or his good deeds expeditiously over an unproven charge. Have a nice day Kayhla.

        • Did he?

          I though he liked brown sugar and allowed all of his slaves as much freedom as possible.

  11. our founding fathers would be very angry and dissapointed if they would to see this once great country in the state that it is today. the american dream now turned in the new american nightmare. sad to say that we are done.no more freedom.

    • All because you forgot God, neglected Him and didn’t return to your first Love! It’s not too late! Where there is life there is hope! Clic my name to turn around and go the opposite way! See issue guide!

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