The Supreme Court – on behalf of the propertied few – quickly interpreted the word "person" to apply to corporate entities and misapplied the Fourteenth Amendment to give corporations freedom from state regulation. With no federal regulation either, the corporations existed in a laissez faire paradise. Meanwhile, the Court ignored the rights of actual human beings and civil liberties were largely left to state officialdom. Attacked
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