If a corporation is legally a person, then states cannot limit corporate rights without due process of law either.

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Now incidentally, in a for-profit corporation-- this is how to understand this, this is a concept that is enshrined in law.

顺便提一下,在一家盈利性公司中,我们需要这样理解,这是个在法律中明文昭示的概念

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Also, the law of the state in which the corporation is chartered also puts restrictions on what can be in the bylaws.

此外公司许可证的中所涉及的州法条文,也会对公司规章提出一些限制

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The state law probably requires that a corporation have a board of directors, but it's also something that can be defined at the time that you create the corporation in the bylaws.

州法规定,公司必须要有董事会,但还有一些规定,是你在制订公司制度时自由规定的

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