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Nov 21, 2021Liked by Patrick Mazza

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?

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I plan to get at this, and make some modest proposals of my own.

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Agreed. It will take active social movements aimed at fundamental change to make those governments democratically responsive. Many are now under the control of reactionary forces.

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