The Program on Corporations, Law, and Democracy (POCLAD) is an
activist collective of 11 members(with three leaving, making 14.), who
research
Research is " creative and systematic work undertaken to increase the stock of knowledge". It involves the collection, organization and analysis of evidence to increase understanding of a topic, characterized by a particular attentiveness ...
the history of
corporations in the United States. They are some of the main circulators of the notion that
corporate personhood
Corporate personhood or juridical personality is the legal notion that a juridical person such as a corporation, separately from its associated human beings (like owners, managers, or employees), has at least some of the legal rights and respons ...
—which gives corporations some of the same legal
rights
Rights are legal, social, or ethical principles of freedom or entitlement; that is, rights are the fundamental normative rules about what is allowed of people or owed to people according to some legal system, social convention, or ethical theory ...
as real human beings—is at the center of the problems regarding corporations. They also publish a newsletter three times a year called By What Authority () English for quo warranto, a legal phrase that questions illegitimate exercise of privilege and power, which they claim ''reflects an unabashed assertion of the right of the sovereign people to govern themselves.''
Collective members
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David Cobb
*Greg Coleridge
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Karen Coulter
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Mike Ferner
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Dave Henson
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Ward Morehouse
Ward Morehouse (November 24, 1895 – December 7, 1966) was an American theater critic, newspaper columnist, playwright, and author.
Life and career
Born in Savannah, Georgia, Ward Morehouse first worked as a reporter for ''The Savannah Press ...
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Lewis Pitts
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Jim Price
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Virginia Rasmussen
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Kaitlin Sopoci-Belknap
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Mary Zepernick
Former members
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Richard Grossman
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Peter Kellman
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Jane Anne Morris
See also
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Ohio Committee on Corporations, Law, and Democracy
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Democracy Unlimited of Humboldt County
External links
Official siteDemocracy Unlimited of Humboldt County
Organizations based in Massachusetts
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