The Constitution Besieged: The Rise and Demise of Lochner Era Police Powers Jurisprudence - Hardcover
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The Constitution Besieged offers a compelling reinterpretation of one of the most notorious periods in American constitutional history. In the decades following the Civil War, federal and state judges struck down as unconstitutional a great deal of innovative social and economic legislation. Scholars have traditionally viewed this as the work of a conservative judiciary more interested in promoting laissez-faire economics than in interpreting the Constitution. Howard Gillman challenges this scholarly orthodoxy by showing how these judges were in fact observing a long-standing constitutional prohibition against "class legislation."
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"An important work."--Mark Tushnet, Georgetown University
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Howard Gillman is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Southern California.
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