Thomas Jefferson had more direct opinions on corporations, having tried (and failed) to add an 11th amendment limiting their power. For example: "I hope we sha

Thomas Jefferson had more direct opinions on corporations, having tried (and failed) to add an 11th amendment limiting their power. For example: "I hope we shall take warning from the example [of England] and crush in it’s birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial of strength, and to bid defiance to the laws of their country." https://books.google.com/books?id=KCFfDQAAQBAJ&lpg=PT110&ots=7EHT-8jADH&dq=thomas%20jefferson%20on%20dutch%20east%20india%20company&pg=PT110#v=onepage&q=thomas%20jefferson%20monied%20corporations&f=false https://books.google.com/books?id=KCFfDQAAQBAJ&lpg=PT110&ots...