Labeled by both contemporaries and historians as "the grandest society of merchants in the universe",[citation needed] the British East India Company would come to symbolize the dazzlingly rich potential of the corporation, as well as new methods of business that could be both brutal and exploitive.[10] On 31 December 1600, the English monarchy granted the company a 15-year monopoly on trade to and from the East Indies and Africa. By 1611, shareholders in the East India Company were earning an almost 150% return on their investment. Subsequent stock offerings demonstrated just how lucrative the Company had become. Its first stock offering in 1613-1616 raised ₤418,000, and its first offering in 1617-1622 raised ₤1.6 million.[11]
In the United States, government chartering began to fall out of vogue in the mid-19th century. Corporate law at the time was focused on protection of the public interest, and not on the interests of corporate shareholders. Corporate charters were closely regulated by the states. Forming a corporation usually required an act of legislature. Investors generally had to be given an equal say in corporate governance, and corporations were required to comply with the purposes expressed in their charters. Many private firms in the 19th century avoided the corporate model for these reasons (Andrew Carnegie formed his steel operation as a limited partnership, and John D. Rockefeller set up Standard Oil as a trust). Eventually, state governments began to realize the greater corporate registration revenues available by providing more permissive corporate laws. New Jersey was the first state to adopt an "enabling" corporate law, with the goal of attracting more business to the state.[12] Delaware followed, and soon became known as the most corporation-friendly state in the country after New Jersey raised taxes on the corporations, driving them out. New Jersey reduced these taxes after this mistake was realized, but by then it was too late; even today, most major public corporations in the United States are set up under Delaware law.
By the beginning of the 19th century, government policy on both sides of the Atlantic began to change, reflecting the growing popularity of the proposition that corporations were riding the economic wave of the future. In 1819, the U.S. Supreme Court granted corporations a plethora of rights they had not previously recognized or enjoyed.[13] Corporate charters were deemed "inviolable", and not subject to arbitrary amendment or abolition by state governments.[14] The Corporation as a whole was labeled an "artificial person," possessing both individuality and immortality.[15]
At around the same time, British legislation was similarly freeing the corporation from historical restrictions. In 1844 the British Parliament passed the Joint Stock Companies Act, which allowed companies to incorporate without a royal charter or an Act of Parliament.[16] Ten years later, limited liability, the key provision of modern corporate law, passed into English law: in response to increasing pressure from newly emerging capital interests, Parliament passed the Limited Liability Act of 1855, which established the principle that any corporation could enjoy limited legal liability on both contract and tort claims simply by registering as a "limited" company with the appropriate government agency.[17]
This prompted the English periodical The Economist to write in 1855 that "never, perhaps, was a change so vehemently and generally demanded, of which the importance was so much overrated."[18] The glaring inaccuracy of the second part of this judgment was recognized by the same magazine more than 75 years later, when it claimed that, "[t]he economic historian of the future . . . may be inclined to assign to the nameless inventor of the principle of limited liability, as applied to trading corporations, a place of honour with Watt and Stephenson, and other pioneers of the Industrial Revolution."[19]
Photo-0016 - hey, what's all that noise?
Photo-0017 - where are all these police cars going?
Photo-0018 - Police Officer looking on
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Photo-0022 - outside the IMF
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Photo-0024 - Police with the IMF seal
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Photo-0026 - Anon showed up
Photo-0027 - Some of the "End The Fed" anti-Obama people who were there
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Photo-0029 - The "End The Fed" people actually left for the Fed instead of staying for the General Assembly with the rest of the group.
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Photo-0031 - Hm, his mask seems to have slipped 
Photo-0032 - Putting one in jail also works
Photo-0033 - Gee Dub represent!
Photo-0034 - In case you can't read it, it says "People Over Profit$"
Photo-0035 - Apparently the girl on the right is in my Math and Politics class with me?
Photo-0036 - Plenty of photos were being taken, all right
Photo-0037 - Is that Karl Marx or Frederick Douglass replacing Uncle Sam there?
Photo-0038 - The closest anyone came to getting arrested (for walking in the street)
Photo-0039 - A Kucinich supporter
Photo-0040 - A depot of extra signs (the one I had left there earlier this week was still there, although it looked like its back had been used as a paint palette)
Photo-0041 - Musicians
