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Albert Beveridge: “The objects for which a corporation is created are universally such as the government wishes to promote." Why should a…”

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The objects for which a corporation is created are universally such as the government wishes to promote." Why should a private charity, incorporated for the purpose of education, be excluded from the rules that apply to other corporations?
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Albert Beveridge
Republican · Indiana

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Beveridge argues that private educational charities should be treated like other corporations under the law.

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