Research Catalog

Title

Economic liberties and the constitution / Bernard H. Siegan.

Author

Siegan, Bernard H.

Publication

New Brunswick, N.J. : Transaction Publishers, ©2006.

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Description

xii, 423 pages; 24 cm

Summary

A completely revised and updated second edition of Economic liberties and the constitution.

Subject

• Trade regulation > United States > Cases
• Constitutional law > Economic aspects > United States > Cases
• Liberty of contract > United States > Cases
• Right of property > United States > Cases
• Constitutional law > Economic aspects
• Liberty of contract
• Right of property
• Trade regulation
• United States

Genre/Form

• Trials, litigation, etc.
• Cases.

Note

• "A completely revised and updated second edition of Economic liberties and the constitution."

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

The Magna Carta -- Protection of material rights prior to the ratification of the Constitution -- Framing a constitution to secure liberty -- Judicial interpretations of due process prior to the framing of the Fourteenth Amendment -- 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) -- Destroying the original Constitution -- The New Deal justices reinterpret the Constitution -- U.S. Supreme Court refuses to reverse economic liberties decisions and strikes down commerce clause decisions -- Failures of statism in the United States and its collapse elsewhere in the world -- Economic success : Germany (come and gone), Ireland, China, and Vietnam -- 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) -- Some lower courts strike down economic legislation, but Supreme Court changes uncertain.

ISBN

• 0765805723
• 9780765805720
• 1412805252
• 9781412805254

LCCN

2004062003

OCLC

57002192

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library