The Iron Horse and the Constitution: The Railroads and the Transformation of the Fourteenth Amendment

by Richard C. Cortner

This is the first in-depth analysis of American railroad litigation from the 1880s to 1910 that led to landmark decisions by the Supreme Court, fundamentally altering the meaning of due process in American constitutional law and establishing a basic power of the federal courts to restrict state regulation over railroad rates. This is the first book-length study systematically to explore the impact of American railroads on the courts and the U.S...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0313285780
• ISBN13: 9780313285783
• Release Date: April 1993
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 1.17 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"