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2021 | OriginalPaper | Chapter

5. Americans’ Economic Rights

Authors : Charles M. Lamb, Jacob R. Neiheisel

Published in: Constitutional Landmarks

Publisher: Springer International Publishing

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Abstract

America is predominantly a capitalist nation with a safety net for the economically less fortunate, so decisions influencing who gets what, when, how, and why can be critical economic issues in politics and law. Relying on McCloskey’s theory of the three constitutional eras, we show that the Marshall Court relied on economic rights to bolster federal power, the Court from Chief Justice Taney to the Great Depression permitted business rights to flourish as the nation increasingly became industrialized, and Court decisions since the New Deal have emphasized individual civil rights as well as economic rights in a more regulated economy.

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Footnotes
1
Seemingly, Marshall’s opinion was not influenced by the fact that land speculators had bribed Georgia legislators in order to facilitate this gargantuan swindle.
 
2
Indeed, Marshall thought of contracts as “sacred” arrangements, intended to last forever.
 
3
See Gillman (1993) for one prominent revisionist interpretation of Lochner.
 
4
See Chapter 1, note 3 concerning how liberal Takings Clause cases are defined by the US Supreme Court Database.
 
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Metadata
Title
Americans’ Economic Rights
Authors
Charles M. Lamb
Jacob R. Neiheisel
Copyright Year
2021
Book
Constitutional Landmarks

Print ISBN: 978-3-030-55574-0

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-030-55575-7

Copyright Year: 2021

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-55575-7_5