Rosen's great grand daddies helped start this, those bah-sterds
-Civil war and industrial revolution created enormous growth and corporate lawers wanted more power and wanted to remove constraints placed on corporation charters (00:08:40) -Thus corporations used 14th amendment (equal rights for law liberty and property for blacks) to have corporations be immune from states being able to deprive corporations from life, liberty and property without due process of law just like they had been doing to slaves all along prior to the 14th amendment. Thus corporation lawyers went to the supreme court and convinced it that a Corporation is a person and so cannot be deprived either. (00:09:12)