The gross domestic product measures the value of economic activity within a country.
It was a historical ruling that allowed companies to participate in electoral political campaigns.
The sentence prohibited the government from limiting political donations from companies and trade unions. The Supreme Court ruling overturned all BCRA limitations that prohibited companies, including non-profit organizations, and unions from investing in "election campaigns"
Slave traders violently captured Africans and loaded them onto slave ships, where for months these individuals endured the “Middle Passage”—the crossing of the Atlantic from Africa to the North American colonies or West Indies. Many Africans did not survive the journey.