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Subject: History: Andrew Jackson
Category: Reference, Education and News > General Reference
Asked by: leveler1952-ga
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Posted: 17 Jan 2005 14:15 PST
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Question ID: 458832
Exact context for Andrew Jackson's "A corporation has neither a body
to kick or a soul to damn"
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Subject: Re: History: Andrew Jackson
From: pinkfreud-ga on 17 Jan 2005 14:31 PST
 
I am not aware of a connection with Andrew Jackson. A paraphrase of
your quote is generally attributed to Lord Edward Thurlow:

"Legal scholars historically advanced the position that a corporation
could not be punished. In 1250, Pope Innocent IV stated that a
corporation could not be excommunicated because it did not have a
soul. Later, Edward, first Baron [Thurlow], expanded upon Innocent?s
position in his highly quoted statement that a corporation has "no
soul to be damned and no body to be kicked."

http://www.nyls.edu/pdfs/v46n3-4p851-865.pdf

"LORD EDWARD THURLOW (1), 1ST BARON THURLOW
 English jurist and statesman
 (1731 - 1806
Did you ever expect a corporation to have a conscience, when it has no
soul to be damned, and no body to be kicked?"

http://www.giga-usa.com/gigaweb1/quotes2/quautthurlow1edwardx001.htm

There's an interesting article about the quote and its variants here:

http://etheridge.ca/articles/corporation-soul.html
Subject: Re: History: Andrew Jackson
From: leveler1952-ga on 20 Jan 2005 17:43 PST
 
Thanks, Pinkfreud, for your interesting information.  However, the
fact that somebody else said it first doesn't mean that Jackson didn't
use the phrase,  In fact Wikipedia, the on-line encyclopedia, as well
as some other sources, says he did use it.  Unfortunately none of them
say when or where, so I'm still waiting for an answer.

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