Introduction: The Battle to Save Democracy
Part I: Corporations Take Over
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Part II: From the Birth of American Democracy through the Birth of Corporate Personhood
Chapter Three: Banding Together for the Common Good
Chapter Four: The Boston Tea Party Revealed
Chapter Five: Jefferson Versus the Corporate Aristocracy
Chapter Six: The Early Role of Corporations in America
Chapter Seven: The People’s Masters
Chapter Eight: Corporations Go Global
Chapter Nine: The Court Takes the Presidency
Part III: Unequal Consequences
Chapter Twelve: Unequal Uses for the Bill of Rights
Chapter Thirteen: Unequal Regulation
Chapter Fourteen: Unequal Protection from Risk
Chapter Fifteen: Unequal Taxes
Chapter Sixteen: Unequal Responsibility for Crime
Chapter Seventeen: Unequal Privacy
Chapter Eighteen: Unequal Citizenship and Access to the Commons
Chapter Nineteen: Unequal Wealth
Chapter Twenty-One: Unequal Media
Chapter Twenty-Two: Unequal Influence
Chapter Twenty-Three: Capitalists and Americans Speak Out for Community
Chapter Twenty-Four: End Corporate Personhood
Chapter Twenty-Five: A New Entrepreneurial Boom
Chapter Twenty-Six: A Democratic Marketplace
Chapter Twenty-Seven: Restoring Government, of, by, and for the People
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