The Constitution Besieged: The Rise and Demise of Lochner Era Police Powers Jurisprudence by Howard Gillman

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

Howard Gillman

328 pages first pub 1992 (editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative reflective slow-paced

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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 o...

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