And the other Is The Transformation of
American Law, by Morton Horowitz,
H-O-R-O-W-I-T-Z.
He is the chair of history of law at Harvard.
And his first volume was published by Harvard,
the next one by Oxford University Press.
But in that study, I just regret that I didn't
do more in the study of law because what we're up
against is largely the terrible, terrible limitations and
distortions of our jurisprudence now, because of this.
Now, he shows there in his first volume,
Transformation of American Law, how the legal profession,
the judiciary bonded with the entrepreneurial commercial
concerns at the very beginning of this country.
The Transformation of American Law is from common law of
the colonial period which is derived from England.
But immediately in the 19th century, and
that was just after the Constitution came into power,
the whole structure of this country moved toward
the commercial industrial enterprise.
And government ever since then has been supporting.
Now, the second volume of that is particularly good.
If you read the first and the last chapters of the first volume,
you may get the basic idea.
But it's the corporation.
We don't live in nations any longer.
We live in a world of corporations, and
corporations no longer have any allegiance to any country.
And no country can set limits of what they do.
They're not under control of any other human concern.
On the other hand, the corporations, they own the world now after the gap traders,
after the World Trade Organization comes in, the corporations own the planet.
They own the land.
They own the legislatures.
The legal profession is almost totally
dedicated to support of the corporations.
You see these big corporations now have hundreds and
hundreds of lawyers, a single legal corporation supporting
the commercial enterprise projects and the different things.
>> Thomas?
>> It makes a person.
>> [LAUGH] >> Another sentence.
>> You're going to have to hire a lawyer and
sue me, I have to let these people have ten minutes, okay?
[LAUGH] >> Good.
>> Ten minutes, come back at 3, one minute to 3, thank you.
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