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It is wholly artificial, and made, like all other legal fictions, by common agreement.
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gutenberg.orgCharles Sumner: “It is wholly artificial, and made, like all other legal fictions, by common agreement.”
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Sumner argues that the idea of a corporation is a social construct established by mutual agreement.
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