From: Oxford Constitutions (http://oxcon.ouplaw.com). (c) Oxford University Press, 2023. All Rights Reserved.date: 28 April 2025
- Subject(s):
- Civil society — Corporations — Campaign finance — Electoral systems — Suffrage — Legislature — Democracy — Civil and political rights
General Editors: Rainer Grote, Frauke Lachenmann, Rüdiger Wolfrum
Managing Editor: Martina Mantovani
1 This entry discusses cases in which legal persons (corporations) hold a right to vote or suffrage in addition to, or even in lieu of, natural persons (human beings). This is rare but not non-existent in the present day; it was more common in the past. As will become evident over the course of the discussion, the term ‘corporations’ includes, for these purposes, commercial businesses, but is not limited to them and extends also to organizations that bring together individuals for purposes other than commercial enterprise. 2 This entry does not address the...
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