Substantive Due Process, Liberty of Contract, and the States’ Police Power
Judge Raymond Randolph, in a speech to the Federalist Society’s National Lawyer’s Convention on November 11, 2005, had much to say about substantive due process: . . . Substantive due process is the...
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I published this post at Liberty Corner almost ten years ago. I was prompted to re-publish it (with minor changes) upon reading George Will’s column about Chief Justice Roberts’s egregious treatment of...
View ArticleWhy Liberty of Contract Matters
UPDATED 10/19/15 I wrote this four years ago “In Defense of Wal-Mart“: There are no goon squads dragging unwilling people in from the streets to work in Wal-Mart stores. There are no Wal-Mart employees...
View ArticleWhy I Am Anti-Union
Schadenfreude. That was my reaction to a recent piece by Rick Moran: A week ago, employees at the Gothamist and DNAinfo were celebrating after a successful vote to join the Writers Guild. The Gothamist...
View ArticleCakes and Liberty
Mark David Hall yesterday posted “Phillips Likely to Win Masterpiece Cakeshop Case, Five Votes to Four” at Law & Liberty. I fervently hope that Phillips wins, and by a greater margin than 5-4...
View ArticleRestoring the Contract Clause
Here is George Leef, writing today at National Review online: For decades, the Court has allowed the Constitution’s contract clause (in Article I, Section 10, along with other things the states aren’t...
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