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    The Corporate Power Reset that makes Citizens United Irrelevant
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    The Corporate Power Reset that makes Citizens United Irrelevant

    to strike down a state’s decision to not grant a power to corporations, courts would need to unmake a vast expanse of settled precedent establishing that corporations have only the powers bestowed by state law.

    Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance | Transparent Election Initiative
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    Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance | Transparent Election Initiative

    Corporations have only the powers that states give them—no more. States stopped being choosy about the powers they granted to their corporations in the mid-1800s. But every single state retained the authority to be as choosy as they like. Every single state retains the authority to decide to no longer grant its corporations the power to spend in politics.