Economic Liberties and the Constitution

Bernard H. Siegan

In this seminal work, Bernard Siegan traces the history of onstitutional protection for economic liberties in the United States

1: The Magna Carta; 2: Protection of Material Rights Prior to the Ratification of the Constitution; 3: Framing a Constitution to Secure Liberty; 4: Judicial Interpretations of Due Process Prior to the Framing of the Fourteenth Amendment; 5: 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); 6: Destroying the Original Constitution; 7: The New Deal Justices Reinterpret the Constitution; 8: U.S. Supreme Court Refuses to Reverse Economic Liberties Decisions and Strikes Down Commerce Clause Decisions; 9: Failures of Statism in the United States and its Collapse Elsewhere in the World; 10: Economic Success: Germany (Come and Gone), Ireland, China, and Vietnam; 11: 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); 12: Some Lower Courts Strike Down Economic Legislation, but Supreme Court Changes Uncertain; Epilogue