I am intrigued by the invitation for state governments to wrestle with corporate power, the penultimate paragraph (and Williams quote) of your article. In a future article, can you get practical about what levers a state government has to do this? My very primitive legal knowledge has it, that states can regulate corporate activity to nearly any degree they like, with the only substantive federal legal limitation being the Dormant Commerce Clause. Am I right about that? What's possible? What's possible as a real starting point?
Corporations have been at the game of centrally controlling state legislatures for decades through the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC). Political decentralization is a laudable goal but it will take more than just relying on state governments.
I am intrigued by the invitation for state governments to wrestle with corporate power, the penultimate paragraph (and Williams quote) of your article. In a future article, can you get practical about what levers a state government has to do this? My very primitive legal knowledge has it, that states can regulate corporate activity to nearly any degree they like, with the only substantive federal legal limitation being the Dormant Commerce Clause. Am I right about that? What's possible? What's possible as a real starting point?
Corporations have been at the game of centrally controlling state legislatures for decades through the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC). Political decentralization is a laudable goal but it will take more than just relying on state governments.