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To: bentway who wrote (545665)	1/22/2010 7:27:30 PM
From: TimF	5 Recommendations Read Replies (1) of 1577836

corporations didn't EXIST when the founders wrote the constitution and the bill of rights. If that was true, how could the founders have thought to exclude them from the 1st amendment protections of free speech? And how having done so could they then include them in the 1st amendment protection of freedom of the press? But they did in fact exist well before the US constitution. --- The Hudson's Bay Company (French: Compagnie de la Baie d'Hudson), abbreviated HBC, is the oldest commercial corporation in North America and one of the oldest in the world. The company was incorporated by British royal charter in 1670 as The Governor and Company of Adventurers of England trading into Hudson's Bay; it is now domiciled in Canada and has adopted the more common shorter name as its legal moniker. en.wikipedia.org The Dutch East India Company (Vereenigde Oost-Indische Compagnie or VOC in Dutch, literally "United East Indian Company") was a chartered company established in 1602, when the States-General of the Netherlands granted it a 21-year monopoly to carry out colonial activities in Asia. en.wikipedia.org Other trade companies of the age of the sail * The British East India Company, founded in 1600 * The Danish East India Company, founded in 1616 * The Dutch West India Company, founded in 1621 * The French East India Company, founded in 1664 * The Ostend Company, founded in 1715 * The Swedish East India Company, founded in 1731 en.wikipedia.org The alleged oldest commercial corporation in the world, the Stora Kopparberg mining community in Falun, Sweden, obtained a charter from King Magnus Eriksson in 1347. en.wikipedia.org

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