This book advances a groundbreaking claim rarely acknowledged in legal scholarship or political debate: that government creation of corporations violates the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. Rather than criticizing corporate behavior or calling for more regulation, this book makes a deeper and more radical argument. Corporations are not voluntary market institutions. They are state-manufactured artificial persons, brought into existence by statute and endowed with extraordinary privileges unavailable to natural human beings – privileges such as limited liability, entity shielding, and perpetual existence. These privileges are not neutral tools of commerce — they embody a formal legal caste system, elevating corporations above citizens in both economic and political life. Drawing on the anti-caste principle at the heart of the Fourteenth Amendment and the structural reasoning of cases such as Brown v. Board of Education , this book contends that equal protection forbids the state from creating a superior legal class — even when that class consists of artificial entities rather than human groups. Natural persons cannot obtain the same immunities, cannot match corporate power, and cannot escape the structural disadvantages imposed by corporate privilege. That inequality is not incidental; it is designed into the legal framework itself. Written from a free-market perspective, the book rejects the idea that corporate power results from insufficient oversight or regulatory failure. Instead, it argues that the problem lies at the moment of creation — in the legislative act that brings corporations into being and assigns them attributes that no human individual can acquire. Corporate dominance is not a flaw of capitalism; it is a constitutional violation embedded in corporate law itself. Provocative and rigorously argued, Corporations vs. the Fourteenth Amendment invites readers to reconsider a foundational assumption of modern society, and poses a question that courts and scholars have long avoided: Can a republic committed to equal protection create a privileged artificial class and place it above the citizens that the Constitution was written to protect