CORPORATELY • DICTIONARY ONE.COM • Definition of Corporately

... masses were independent, sovereign bodies, who were to provide for a federative treasury by distinct contingents, and that the revenue had not (as it has) many impositions running through the whole, which affect men individually, and not corporately, and which, by their nature, confound all territorial limits, something might be said for the basis of contribution as founded on masses. But, of all things, this representation, to be measured by contribution, is the most difficult to settle upon principles of equity in a country which considers ...

— The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. III. (of 12) • Edmund Burke