The Corporation

The City's medieval corporation predates Parliament, and outvotes, critics say, its residents.

The City of London Corporation predates parliamentary democracy (its rights confirmed rather than granted in Magna Carta's clause 13), retains the business vote (companies vote alongside residents — expanded 2002), and maintains the Remembrancer, its parliamentary agent monitoring legislation from the under-gallery (documented office, established 1571). Each fact is constitutional public record. The node exists because the conspiracy literature's 'sovereign square mile' is, in these specifics, simply an accurate description of documented anomalies.