...environment, including credit (banks), and raw materials and machinery (supplier firms). Companies attempt of power in the hands of a few men irresponsible to the people' (Blum etai 1968: 239). Iackson embodied the radical-democratic cause to which the antitrust legislation...

...sufficiently circumscribed to survive an opposition, led by President Andrew Jackson, convinced that "such a concentration of power in the hands of a few men irresponsible to the people" threatened the people's freedom. 32 Returning to the Bank of England, Thornton proposed the following...

...Quoting Jackson in 1832 (cited in Roe 1994: 58), Davis and Mizruchi recall his words to the effect that 'it is easy to conceive that great evils to our country...the hands of a few men irresponsible to the people' (1999: 216). Nearly a hundred years later we find Wilson agreeing with him in 191 1 that 'the great...

...twenty-five directors, only five were answerable to the people. The rest served the interests of capital. "It is easy to conceive that great evils to our country...the hands of a few men irresponsible to the people." Nor were the monopolists all Americans; almost a third of the stock of the Bank was owned by foreigners....

...accomplished would be a temptation to designing men to secure that control in their own hands by monopolizing the remaining stock. There is danger that a president...the hands of a few men irresponsible to the people. Is there no danger to our liberty and independence in a bank that in its nature has so little to bind...

...accomplished, wuuld be a temptation to designing men to secure that cnntrol in their own hands by monopolizing the remaining stock. There is danger that a President and Directors would theu be able to elect themselves from year to year, au-J without responsibility or control manage the...