Stemming Corporate Power

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This paper discusses the ways to avoid having corporations gain too much power over the political process. The paper specifically focuses on the role of voting and its importance in helping to achieve the outcome that we desire. It also looks briefly at how actions at the micro level can change the structure of society and affect the political system.

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"John Rawls offered a revision of Kantian theory so it could be used as a grounding in ethical theory. Rawls states that he is concerned with social justice, and he says that the primary subject of justice is the basic structure of society, or "the way in which the major social institutions distribute fundamental rights and duties and determine the division of advantages from social cooperation" (Rawls, 1971, p. 7). The major institutions of society to which Rawls refers are pervasive and have profound effects on behavior and the distribution of benefits. These institutions embody deep-seated inequalities that may be inevitable in the basic structure of any society, and any principles of justice must apply to these inequalities (Rawls, 1971, p. 7)."

Sample of Sources Used:

• Ebenstein, W. & Ebenstein, A.O. (1991). Great Political Thinkers: Plato to the Present. New York: Harcourt Brace College Publishes.
• Hudson, W.E. (1996). American Democracy in Peril. Chatham, New Jersey: Chatham House Publishers.
• Kant, I. (1871). The Metaphysic of Ethics. Edinburgh: T & T Clark.
• Kant, I. (1977). The Philosophy of Kant. New York: Random House.
• Rawls, J. (1996). Political Liberalism. New York: Columbia University Press.

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