Preface; 1 The Conventional Wisdom; 2 An Overview of Lochner Era Substantive Due Process; 3 What Motivated the Old Court; 4 The Question of Unequal Bargaining Power; 5 The Originalist Challenge; 6 Summing Up and Looking Ahead; Table of Cases; Index
Summary
This text systematically examines all of the US Supreme Court's substantive due process cases from 1897 to 1937 and finds that they do not support long-held beliefs about the Lochner Court. The Court struck down far fewer laws on substantive due process grounds than is generally believed
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-204) and index
