So before they pull license to operate in the state, they have to remove from state operations and access to state data and employees.” They also have corporations providing a wide variety of products and services. States have banks and financial institutions providing bank services as well as custodian and asset management functions. Step one in many states will be disqualifying these corporations from receiving depository business or contracts from the state governments. “This is a powerful tool in the hands of state officials. What language in its Constitution is still on the books-language that would allow the legislature to amend or promise to revoke the charter of the Disney Corporation, unless Disney agreed to change many of its policies…Īt the birth of the Republic, corporations were already decentralized.Ĭatherine Austin Fitts, the founder of, which houses miles of crucial information about decentralization, adds: Imagine what a hundred patriots like you could do by researching and unearthing these early state Constitutions and revealing the murder of American history. The other place to go would be the early Constitution of the state where you live-before that Constitution was chopped to pieces by bought-off judges hearing cases, before corporations bulled their way into front-line power. ![]() “1879 California Constitution, Article XII, Corporations” “Ending Corporate Governance: Revoking Our Plutocracy” Here are two places to start, to read Richard Grossman’s work (at ). 20 of them have been repealed, the last set in 1972…” There are 24 sections in Article 12 defining the corporation. Article 12, which runs several pages, is called "Corporations". “I happened to look up the Constitution of California of 1879, which was the constitution that you had when you joined the Union. We still have the authority to rewrite the state corporation codes in order to order corporate executives to do what the sovereign people want to do.” But we still have the authority, in California, and other states, to define the corporations through their charters we still have the authority to amend the charters we still have the authority to revoke the charters - the language is there. “In most states a lot of the language from the early days, that reflected the subordinate nature of corporations is still on the books (including California). Here’s a mind-blowing statement from Richard Grossman: Of course, just as the federal government has been allowed to expand like an unchecked fungus, so has corporate power. Central government and corporations were both strapped and shackled. ![]() Corporations were not granted the rights of citizens in the Constitution.Īt the birth of the American Republic, therefore, there was a double limitation on power. They did not have the rights and freedoms of individuals. If a corporation, in the eyes of a state legislature, violated a basic trust by harming the people, committing offenses against the citizenry, the legislature could summarily cancel its charter and literally exile it from the state.Īgain, corporations were not individual humans. Richard Grossman (1943-2011), an activist and towering scholar of US corporate history, unearthed these staggering and buried truths.Ĭorporations were chartered and allowed to operate by the states. They had none of the rights of the individual granted in the Constitution. ![]() At the dawn of the American Republic, corporations were not given legal status as humans.
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