What is at the top of this inverted power pyramid?

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Corporations, those creatures which began life at the bottom of the people's sovereign power structure. At the state level, the “people” created a state Constitution as the source of all legitimate powers of the state. Each state Constitution has provisions for the state to create and regulate corporations. In Idaho it's Article Eleven of the state Constitution .

But look around you. The flow of power from the people, through the Constitution, to the state and then to the corporations has been reversed. Corporations are now king. They control job function email list banking, transportation, the energy supply, agriculture, healthcare, pharmaceuticals, entertainment, industrial production, wholesale distribution, retail markets, communications and every infrastructure that makes modem life happen. The media shapes the collective public mind by creating or preventing political scandals, limiting the issues of political discussion and often swaying the outcome of elections.

Former corporate officers and employees are routinely appointed or elected to government positions where they can regulate the competition or allow the misconduct of their former employer.

Vice President Cheney, a “former” oil man who is now in charge of setting our National Energy Policy and “former” Monsanto employees who became FDA agents and approved Monsanto's reportedly dangerous and improperly tested Bovine Growth Hormone, are but two examples of corporate invasion of the people's political institutions.