The corporation was originally conceived as a public institution whose purpose was to serve national interests and advance the public good.

As a psychopathic creature, the corporation can neither recognize nor act upon moral reasons to refrain from harming others.

As the corporation's size and power grew, so did the need to assuage people's fears of it. The corporation suffered its first full-blown legitimacy crisis in the wake of the early-twentieth-century merger movement, when, for the first time, many Americans realized that corporations, now turned behemoths, threatened to overwhelm their social institutions and governments.

The corporation was originally conceived as a public institution whose purpose was to serve national interests and advance the public good.

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By leveraging their freedom from the bonds of location, corporations could now dictate the economic policy of governments.

Dodge v. Ford still stands for the legal principal that managers and directors have a legal duty to put the shareholders' interests above all others and no legal authority to serve any other interests - what has come to be known as "the best interests of the corporation" principal.