Corporations Received Broad Judicial Protection in the 1880s and 1890s

question 3

Multiple Choice

Corporations received broad judicial protection in the 1880s and 1890s when the Supreme Court ruled that

• A) stockholders were not liable for a corporation's debts.
• B) corporations, like individuals, were protected under the Fourteenth Amendment.
• C) the Bill of Rights prevented the government from interfering with corporate activity.
• D) general incorporation laws were constitutional.

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