Telegraph and telephone companies; equal transportation

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Limitations on capital stock and prohibitions on retroactive laws favoring corporations; consolidation of corporations with foreign corporations; transfer of franchises and liability of stockholders.

Section 18 declares that any corporation or association of persons who combine with another incorporated company to fix the price or regulate the production of any article of commerce or product of the soil or consumption by the people can be punished, “by adequate penalties, to the extent, if necessary for that purpose, of the forfeiture of their property and franchise.”

Are these provisions adequately enforced now? Would job function email list they be if there was a citizen-controlled corporate accountability grand jury? Would corporations be such a controlling force in our state and nation if they knew they could be held to answer for their misconduct by the citizenry? That is the beauty and utility of the J.A.I.L. concept. It can be adapted to remedy many areas of public misconduct.


Imagine a legislative accountability grand jury which could hold legislators accountable to their oath of office. Such a system could be utilized whenever a legislator was notified of the unconstitutional or illegal nature of legislation, but voted for it anyway. A citizen could bring a complaint and offer his proof. If found to have merit by such a grand jury, it could be sent to trial and be proven. Three strikes and the legislator would be out of the legislature for life. Can we even imagine what a constitutionally accountable legislature would be like? Has such a concept become so far removed from reality as to be unfathomable?