And no hands are less worthy to be trusted with it than those of a moneyed corporation".

The attorneys for the plaintiff argued that the common law rules had no application to trading or moneyed corporations where the relation was not personal.

In the learned journal, in the influential newspaper, I discern no form; only some irresponsible shadow; oftener some moneyed corporation, or some dangler who hopes, in the mask and robes of his paragraph, to pass for somebody.

Thomas Jefferson, one of the founders of the United States, said "I hope we shall crush ... in its birth the aristocracy of our moneyed corporations, which dare already to challenge our government to a trial of strength and bid defiance to the laws of our country".