434 Pages
by
Routledge
434 Pages
by
Routledge
435 Pages
by
Routledge
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In this seminal work, Bernard Siegan traces the history of onstitutional protection for economic liberties in the United States. He argues that the law began to change with respect to economic liberties in the late 1930s. At that time, the Supreme Court abdicated much of its authority to protect property rights, and instead condoned the expansion of state power over private property. Siegan... Read more
1: The Magna Carta; 2: Protection of Material Rights Prior to the Ratification of the Constitution; 3: Framing a Constitution to Secure Liberty; 4: Judicial Interpretations of Due Process Prior to the Framing of the Fourteenth Amendment; 5: Substantive Due Process Decisions 1905–1937: Lochner v. New York (1905) Comment by Professor Christopher Wonnell West Coast Hotel Co. v. Parrish et al . (1937) Nebbia v. New York (1934) New State Ice Co. v. Liebmann (1932); 6: Destroying the Original Constitution; 7: The New Deal Justices Reinterpret the Constitution; 8: U.S. Supreme Court Refuses to Reverse Economic Liberties Decisions and Strikes Down Commerce Clause Decisions; 9: Failures of Statism in the United States and its Collapse Elsewhere in the World; 10: Economic Success: Germany (Come and Gone), Ireland, China, and Vietnam; 11: Recent Decisions That Do Not Apply Due Process or Equal Protection to Protect Economic Liberties: Dolan v. City Of Tigard (1994) BMW of North America, Inc. v. Gore (1996) Allied Structural Steel Co. v. Spannaus (1978) C & A Carbone, Inc. v. Town of Clarkstown (1994) 44 Liquormart, Inc. et al. v. Rhode Island et al . (1996); 12: Some Lower Courts Strike Down Economic Legislation, but Supreme Court Changes Uncertain; Epilogue
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Bernard H. Siegan
