Constructing Kinds of Persons in 1886:Corporate and Criminal

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• 作者：Federman ; Cary
• 关键词：bodies ; corporations ; Ex parte Royall ; Habeas Corpus ; persons ; Santa Clara
• 刊名：Law and Critique
• 出版年：2003
• 出版时间：2003
• 年：2003
• 卷：14
• 期：2
• 页码：167-189
• 全文大小：130 KB
• 刊物类别：Humanities, Social Sciences and Law
• 刊物主题：Philosophy
  Philosophy of Law
  Roman Law, Law History and Canon Law
  Law Theory and Philosophy
  Political Philosophy
  Criminology & Criminal Justice
  
• 出版者：Springer Netherlands
• ISSN：1572-8617

文摘

This essay is about the United StatesSupreme Court's discursive creation of twokinds of persons, one corporate the othercriminal, during its 1886 term. The aim is tocontrast the Supreme Court's construction ofcorporate personhood in County of SantaClara v. Southern Pacific Railroad withits view of the criminal's body in Exparte Royall, a habeas corpus case. TheCourt's purpose in deciding these two cases wasto design a way to disperse newly emergent andconflicting interests in particular directionswithin the judicial apparatus. The result isthat both criminal and corporate bodies come tobe understood through discourse, not outside ofit. So the body which is being introduced canbe described as a discursive body, not as ananatomical given.