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History: Andrew Jackson
Category: Reference, Education and News > General Reference Asked by: leveler1952-ga List Price: $10.00 |
Posted:
17 Jan 2005 14:15 PST
Expires: 16 Feb 2005 14:15 PST 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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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 |
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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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