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by isleyaardvark 3117 days ago
Thomas Jefferson had more direct opinions on corporations, having tried (and failed) to add an 11th amendment limiting their power. For example:

"I hope we shall take warning from the example [of England] and crush in it’s birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial of strength, and to bid defiance to the laws of their country."

https://books.google.com/books?id=KCFfDQAAQBAJ&lpg=PT110&ots...