A Corporate Form Of Freedom
A Corporate Form of Freedom explores how courts and legislatures have decided which nonprofit groups can pursue their missions as corporations. For many years it was a privilege to hold a nonprofit charter. This view changed during the 1950s and 1960s. A new generation contended that legal theory, racial justice, and democratic values demanded that the nonprofit corporate form be available to all groups as a matter of right. As a result, nonprofit corporate status became America's corporate...
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Focusing upon the laws and judicial opinions that have shaped practices in New York and in other states, A Corporate Form of Freedom provides an historical account to explain how and why getting a nonprofit corporate charter came to be a matter of right instead of a privilege--and why the nonprofit corporate form today is treated as generously as it is by the law. Booknews Silber (law, Hofstra U.) explores how US courts and legislatures have decided which nonprofit groups can pursue their missions as corporations. He explains that in the 1950s and 1960s, people began contending that legal theory, racial justice, and democratic values demanded that the nonprofit corporate form be available to all groups as a matter of right. As a result, he says, the nonprofit became the country's corporate form for free expression. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
\ BooknewsSilber (law, Hofstra U.) explores how US courts and legislatures have decided which nonprofit groups can pursue their missions as corporations. He explains that in the 1950s and 1960s, people began contending that legal theory, racial justice, and democratic values demanded that the nonprofit corporate form be available to all groups as a matter of right. As a result, he says, the nonprofit became the country's corporate form for free expression. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)\ \
