Death Grip: Loosening the Law's Stranglehold Over Economic Liberty

by Clint Bolick

In an 1873 decision, the Supreme Court by a 5-4 vote--highly unusual in those days--upheld a bribery-procured Louisiana slaughterhouse monopoly that had been challenged by a group of butchers whose businesses were jeopardized. By that decision (called the Slaughter-House cases), one of the most important and beneficial products of the Civil War--a revolutionary constitutional provision intended to protect civil rights against oppression...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0817913149
• ISBN13: 9780817913144
• Release Date: March 2011
• Publisher: Hoover Institution Press
• Length: 90 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.4" x 9.3"