The Constitution Besieged: The Rise & Demise of Lochner Era Police Powers Jurisprudence

by Howard Gillman

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822316420
• ISBN13: 9780822316428
• Release Date: February 1995
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 8.7" x 6.2"