Rehabilitating Lochner Defending Individual Rights Against Progressive Reform

Name: Rehabilitating Lochner Defending Individual Rights Against Progressive Reform
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ISBN: 9780226004044

ISBN-10: 022600404X

ISBN-13: 9780226004044

Edition: 2012

Authors: David E. Bernstein

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In this timely reevaluation of an infamous Supreme Court decision, David E. Bernstein provides a compelling survey of the history and background ofLochner v. New York. This 1905 decision invalidated state laws limiting work hours and became the leading case contending that novel economic regulations were unconstitutional. Sure to be controversial,Rehabilitating Lochnerargues that the decision was well grounded in precedent—and that modern constitutional jurisprudence owes at least as much to the limited-government ideas ofLochnerproponents as to the more expansive vision of its Progressive opponents. Tracing the influence of this decision through subsequent battles over segregation laws,…

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List price: $25.00
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 10/23/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 208
Size: 6.02" wide x 9.02" long x 0.44" tall
Weight: 0.638
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Introduction



The Rise of Liberty of Contract



The Lochner Case



Progressive Sociological Jurisprudence



Sex Discrimination and Liberty of Contract



Liberty of Contract and Segregation Laws



The Decline of Liberty of Contract, and the Rise of "Civil Liberties"



Lochner in Modern Times


Conclusion


Notes


Index