{"id":42,"date":"2013-04-22T06:14:40","date_gmt":"2013-04-22T09:14:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/tokyotom\/?p=42"},"modified":"2013-04-22T06:15:18","modified_gmt":"2013-04-22T09:15:18","slug":"note-to-larry-lessig-shall-we-amend-the-constitution-but-ignore-possible-reforms-to-limited-liability-corporation-laws-in-the-fifty-states","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/tokyotom\/2013\/04\/22\/note-to-larry-lessig-shall-we-amend-the-constitution-but-ignore-possible-reforms-to-limited-liability-corporation-laws-in-the-fifty-states\/","title":{"rendered":"Note to Larry Lessig: Shall we amend the Constitution, but ignore possible reforms to limited liability corporation laws in the fifty states?"},"content":{"rendered":"

When Larry Lessig launched his\u00a0“Anti-Corruption Pledge<\/span>” last year, I commented on the Wiki page he set up for it<\/a>, and left a copy in an earlier blog post<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Larry responded the next day. I copy here both his reply and my counter-comment:<\/p>\n

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But even if Limited Liability is a more fundamental problem, which I’m not convinced it is, but if: You still need the means to address it, which you don’t have till you address the money problem first. Lessig<\/a> 10:44, 5 March 2012 (EST)<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n
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Larry, thanks for your comment, but I’m not sure I follow you. I think it is a fundamental mistake to ignore that corporations are created in states, despite their tendency to accept if not push for the federalization of corporate law.<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n
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Sure, we can try to address money in campaigns at a federal level, but that’s no reason to turn our back on the leverage that we have in fighting for more responsible corporations – and corporate owners. It’s alot easier to win at least one small victory when you’re also fighting in 50 smaller fora rather than just one big one. TokyoTom<\/a> 14:44, 17 March 2012 (EDT)<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When Larry Lessig launched his\u00a0“Anti-Corruption Pledge” last year, I commented on the Wiki page he set up for it, and left a copy in an earlier blog post. Larry responded the next day. I copy here both his reply and my counter-comment: But even if Limited Liability is a more fundamental problem, which I’m not […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4606,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1338,66888],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-corporations","category-corporatism"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/tokyotom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/tokyotom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/tokyotom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/tokyotom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4606"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/tokyotom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/tokyotom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/tokyotom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42\/revisions\/46"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/tokyotom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/tokyotom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/tokyotom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}