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shareholder voting power  

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  • It is a general rule that voting rights in a corporation are allocated to its shareholders in a way that is proportional with their equity shares. This is intended to enshrine a natural principle that the distribution of decision-making power should mirror the distribution of capital invested. [Source: Encyclopedia of Power; Shareholder Voting Power]

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