On what basis do many companies claim the rights of private citizens? ?

a. they are bound by judicial mandates
b. they use regional administration
c. article iii of the constitution
d. they pay corporate taxes.

Many companies claim the rights of private citizens because they are bound by judicial mandates.

Option A

Explanation:

It was not until 1976 that the idea of 'corporate personhood' advanced. The Supreme Court, in a number of instances, found that companies need to be granted the rights that all the other individuals have so as to simplify the legal suits between individuals and corporations.

Moreover, the fact that corporations are nothing else but groups of people coming together for a common cause gave rise to the need of corporations having the rights of private citizens. The Supreme Court, through its interpretation of articles first, fifth, and fourteenth of the US Constitution, granted companies certain rights that private citizens have.

affirmative action refers to the policies that take gender, race, or ethnicity into account in order to promote equal opportunity.

employers subject to title vii are prohibited from taking race or sex into account in any employment decisions. aa is a penalty for having any job group substantially statistically "underutilized" in any race or either sex. the employer must take steps to eliminate the underutilization, then stop, ending its aa efforts

peasants’ war, (1524–25) peasant uprising in germany inspired by changes brought by the reformation, peasants in western and southern germany invoked   divine law to demand agrarian rights and freedom from oppression by nobles and landlords. as the uprising spread, some peasant groups organized armies. although the revolt was supported huldrych zwingli and thomas müntzerits condemnation by martain luther contributed to its defeat, principally by the army of the swabian league. some 100,000 peasants were killed. reprisals and increased restrictions discouraged further attempts to improve the peasants’ plight.

i think it would be " a" i might be wrong tho