In theory, I do believe that the efforts of corporate philanthropy are applied to a belief that all people should have equal political, economic, social and civil rights. These beliefs, however, come from a self-serving purpose, or as Elexis de Tocqueville dubbed it, "enlightened self-interest". Enlightened self-interest was a concept that Alexis de Tocqueville discussed in his work Democracy in America (Volume I, 1835 and Volume II, 1840). The notion he held was that Americans voluntarily join together in associations to further the interests of the group and, thereby, to serve their own interests. As examples, corporations

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As we can see, not only do the corporations involve themselves in modern day corporate philanthropy, but they also have organizations monitoring them and ensuring that egalitarian efforts are existent as well.

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