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Record Nr.

UNINA9910454990103321

Autore

Phillips Michael J

Titolo

The Lochner court, myth and reality [[electronic resource] ] : substantive due process from the 1890s to the 1930s / / Michael J. Phillips

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Westport, Conn., : Praeger, 2001

ISBN

0-313-00076-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (223 p.)

Disciplina

347.73/5

Soggetti

Due process of law - United States - History

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [201]-204) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Preface; 1 The Conventional Wisdom; 2 An Overview of Lochner Era Substantive Due Process; 3 What Motivated the Old Court; 4 The Question of Unequal Bargaining Power; 5 The Originalist Challenge; 6 Summing Up and Looking Ahead; Table of Cases; Index

Sommario/riassunto

This text systematically examines all of the US Supreme Court's substantive due process cases from 1897 to 1937 and finds that they do not support long-held beliefs about the Lochner Court. The Court struck down far fewer laws on substantive due process grounds than is generally believed.