text:  The first colonies were all corporations because there were these charters that nobody wanted to lose all the money and start a corporation on their own dime. It was everything, right? They didn't want to start a colony on their own dime. So every one of those colonies, Massachusetts Bay Colony, every one of them was formed with an English corporate charter. Mayflower Pact. So we're a nation of corporate charters. And that's the basis of corporatism. The Plantation Society, all of that follows.