They can follow laws, help with their own community/city, and help vote.
Because corporate charters were now protected by law, as demonstrated in the Dartmouth case, companies were more often using charters to establish their businesses as the economy grew.
To protect yourself from the risk off product failure, you could purchase a warranty. With this, you could pass all the responsibilities to the manufacturer (sellers) in case that a product failure happens to the product that you buy from the seller
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