How corporations came to be viewed as "people"

[Dill]

(03-06-2018, 09:37 PM)SunsetBengal Wrote: Do you find it odd, that no one has ever made any serious push to make these things widely known, or to propose correcting them?

Back at that time, the percentage of mostly agrarian and lay people likely weren't as politically engaged, as they are today.  So, I could understand the lack of any serious "outrage" from the public, at that time.

I think one could argue that "agrarians" in the late 19th century were as political as they are now.

The difference is that they had a better understanding of who the real "elites" were.  Think of the Populist Party.