How Progressives Rewrote the Constitution - Hardcover

Epstein, Richard A.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1930865872 ISBN 13: 9781930865877

Publisher: Cato Institute, 2006

Synopsis

Richard A. Epstein traces the Old Court's treatment of federalism and economic liberty and shows how early 20th-century progressives prevailed eventually in undermining those principles, supplanting competitive markets with government-created cartels and monopolies

About this title

From the Back Cover:

"Just as we are being berated by his Chicago colleague Cass Sunstein for not completing FDR's social-democratic revolution by embracing a New Deal for speech and constitutionalizing welfare rights, here comes Richard Epstein inviting us to wonder whether the New Deal enterprise and the Progressive movement that preceeded it were not all a dreadful mistake. This is a challenging and amusing book -- Richard Epstein at the top of his game."

--Charles Fried, Professor of Law, Harvard University, Former U.S. Solitictor General

About the Author:

Richard A. Epstein teaches law at the University of Chicago and is an adjunct scholar at the Cato Institute.

About this edition

• Publisher: Cato Institute
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 1930865872
• ISBN 13: 9781930865877
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 120