Description:Either the Commerce Clause gives Congress a plenary power to regulate anything it pleases or it doesn't" says David Bernstein. He goes after attempts to limit economic freedom and liberty of contract in his book Rehabilitating Lochner: Defending Individual Rights against Progressive Reform, a history of the 1905 case Lochner v. New York. The decision nullified a state law regulating work hours for bakers and became the impetus for a 40-year period where American courts protected economic liberty
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ReasonTV
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Rehabilitating Lochner and the Freedom to Contract
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David Bernstein
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econimic freedom
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Freedom to contract