The Contract Clause : A Constitutional History /

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"This book is a history of the contract clause of the U.S. Constitution from its creation to the present day. Created in response to widespread state efforts to restructure debts after the Revolution, the clause provided that states were barred from "altering or impairing the obligation of...

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Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Ely, James W., Jr., 1938- (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Lawrence, Kansas : University Press of Kansas, [2016]
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Sujets:
United States. > Supreme Court.
United States. > Constitution > Contract clause.
Umschulungswerkstätten für Siedler und Auswanderer > Bitterfeld
États-Unis. > Supreme Court.
United States. > Constitution. > Article 1, Section 10, Clause 1.
Constitution (United States)
Right of property > United States.
Liberty of contract > United States.
Vertragsrecht
Vertragsfreiheit
Verfassung
Eigentumsschutz
Eigentum
Right of property.
Liberty of contract.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Government > State & Provincial.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Government > National.
LAW > Constitutional.
Droit de propriete > États-Unis.
Liberte contractuelle > États-Unis.
United States.
Electronic books.
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • Introduction
  • Origins and early development
  • The Era of John Marshall, 1801-1835
  • The Taney Era
  • The Eras of the Civil War and Reconstruction
  • The gilded age
  • The early Twentieth Century
  • The contract clause in the age of regulation
  • Epilogue.

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