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To effect this, corporations have been created in most of the states and granted such liberal corporate powers, without respect to the nature of the business to be conducted, and with terms and privileges so favorable, that private enterprise without large capital cannot compete with them.
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John Sherman
Ohio

Editor's note · Context

Sherman critiques the liberal corporate powers granted to businesses, which hinder small enterprises from competing.

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