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The '''Program on Corporations, Law, and Democracy''' ('''POCLAD''') is an [[activist]] [[collective]] of 11 members (with three leaving, making 14.), who [[research]] the history of [[corporations]] in the United States. They are some of the main circulators of the notion that [[corporate personhood]]—which gives corporations some of the same legal [[rights]] as real human beings—is at the center of the problems regarding corporations.  They also publish a newsletter three times a year called By What Authority ({{ISSN|1524-1106}}) English for quo warranto, a legal phrase that questions illegitimate exercise of privilege and power, which they claim ''reflects an unabashed assertion of the right of the sovereign people to govern themselves.''

== Collective members ==
*[[David Cobb (activist)|David Cobb]]
*Greg Coleridge
*[[Karen Coulter]]
*[[Mike Ferner]]
*[[Dave Henson]]
*[[Ward Morehouse (activist)|Ward Morehouse]]
*[[Lewis Pitts]]
*[[Jim Price (activist)|Jim Price]]
*[[Virginia Rasmussen]]
*[[Kaitlin Sopoci-Belknap]]
*[[Mary Zepernick]]

== Former members ==
* [[Richard Grossman (author)|Richard Grossman]]
* [[Peter Kellman]]
* [[Jane Anne Morris]]

== See also ==
*[[Ohio Committee on Corporations, Law, and Democracy]]
*[[Democracy Unlimited of Humboldt County]]

==External links==
*[http://www.poclad.org/ Official site]
*[http://www.duhc.org/ Democracy Unlimited of Humboldt County]

[[Category:Organizations based in Massachusetts]]


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