Download or read book Liberty of Contract written by David N. Mayer and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the history of the liberty of contract and shows how this right has been continuously diminished by court decisions and by our country's growing regulatory and welfare state.
Download or read book Liberty of Contract written by David N. Mayer and published by Cato Institute. This book was released on 2011-01-16 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the history of the liberty of contract and shows how this right has been continuously diminished by court decisions and by our country's growing regulatory and welfare state.
Download or read book The State and Freedom of Contract written by and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 1998-09 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The relationship of law to economic freedom has been a vital element in the history of all modern democratic societies. "Freedom of contract" is both a technical term in law, referring to private agreements and promises, and a metaphor often deployed to describe economic liberty. This volume of new essays by eminent legal historians offers fresh perspectives on freedom of contract in both senses of the term, and considers how economic freedom relates to such classic political freedoms as free speech and other Anglo-American constitutional norms. The principal focus of the essays is on broad issues of policy and law, rather than on narrow considerations of legal doctrine. All the contributors reject stereotypes that pervade the existing literature about the allegedly unalloyed individualism of the common law, and show how active state interventions of various kinds have shaped contract law in relation to social change throughout our legal history. Equally, however, they reject shibboleths regarding "bringing the state back in," and take a hard look at the claims of statist ideology regarding the norms and rules that have established the legal boundaries of liberty in the modern industrial and post-industrial eras. The topics covered are Blackstone's claim that property was the "despotic dominion of the private owner" (A. W. B. Simpson), labor and contract (John V. Orth), the influence of philosophical trends on legal innovations (James Gordley), contract and individualism (David Lieberman), the tradition of public rights (Harry N. Scheiber), the formal concept of "liberty of contract" in American law (Charles McCurdy), the interwoven history of labor law and contract law (Arthur McEvoy), public policy in relation to natural resources (Donald Pisani), and globalization of freedom of contract (Martin Shapiro).
Download or read book Liberty of Contract and Labor Laws written by Roger Foster and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Constitutional Protection of Private Property and Freedom of Contract written by Richard A. Epstein and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-15 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 2000. This is a collection of essays that look at the Constitutional protection of private property and freedom of contract, and forms part of the Liberty, Property and Law series where the materials in this collection are drawn from many disciplines, including economics, law, philosophy and political science.
Download or read book Constitutional Laissez Faire written by Jimmy Rogers Smith and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Contract Freedom and Restraint written by Richard A. Epstein and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-15 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 2000. Where a well-run society should rest on the continuum between public and private control has been the most contentious and thorny issue of legal and social theory throughout the generations. This series sets out to provide answers to this ongoing dispute contained in the five volumes of material assembled. The collection draws from many disciplines, including economics, law, philosophy and political science. Yet they are all directed to a topic that is worthy of examination from multiple perspectives: Liberty, Property and the Law.
Download or read book Rediscovering Liberty of Contract written by Steven Begakis and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The liberty of contract formation is a form of speech, and thus it is a right guaranteed by the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution. This Article examines how the First Amendment secures the liberty of contract formation and analyzes how that liberty is supported by the U.S. Supreme Court's commercial speech jurisprudence and by both originalist and traditionalist theories of Constitutional interpretation.
Download or read book Rehabilitating Lochner written by David E. Bernstein and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2011-05-15 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this timely reevaluation of an infamous Supreme Court decision, David E. Bernstein provides a compelling survey of the history and background of Lochner v. New York. This 1905 decision invalidated state laws limiting work hours and became the leading case contending that novel economic regulations were unconstitutional. Sure to be controversial, Rehabilitating Lochner argues that the decision was well grounded in precedent—and that modern constitutional jurisprudence owes at least as much to the limited-government ideas of Lochner proponents as to the more expansive vision of its Progressive opponents. Tracing the influence of this decision through subsequent battles over segregation laws, sex discrimination, civil liberties, and more, Rehabilitating Lochner argues not only that the court acted reasonably in Lochner, but that Lochner and like-minded cases have been widely misunderstood and unfairly maligned ever since.
Download or read book No Treason Volume 1 written by Lysander Spooner and published by Read Books Ltd. This book was released on 2013-03-05 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1870, this essay by the American anarchist and political philosopher Lysander Spooner is here reproduced. Described by Murray Rothbard as "the greatest case for anarchist political philosophy ever written", Spooner's lengthy essay is still referenced by anarchists and philosophers today. In it, he argues that the American Civil War violated the US Constitution, thus rendering it null and void. An indispensable read for political historians both amateur and professional alike. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
Download or read book Liberty of Contract in American Constitutional Law written by Richard C. Cortner and published by . This book was released on 1958 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Choice Contract and Constitutions written by James M. Buchanan and published by Collected Works of James M. Bu. This book was released on 2001 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Constitutional political economy is the theme of the papers collected in this volume. This entire area of contemporary economic thought is a legacy of James M Buchanan. In outlining the importance of this volume to the contemporary study of economics and to the work of James M Buchanan, Robert D Tollison states in his foreword, "Buchanan literally founded the field of constitutional political economy... (His) insistence on the importance of rules was an important innovation in economics, and, over the past thirty years or so, the analytical and empirical relevance of Buchanan's constitutional perspective has become apparent." The thirty-five papers represented in this volume are grouped into these major subject categories: foundational issues; the method of constitutional economics; incentives and constitutional choice; constitutional order; market order; distributional issues; fiscal and monetary constitutions; reform. For Buchanan, his work in constitutional political economy is just the first step. He is concerned with inducing economists and other scholars to take the constitutional problem seriously. As they do, says Robert D Tollison, "the face of modern economics will be changed."
Download or read book The Illiberty of Contract written by Donald J. Smythe and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The term “liberty of contract” is usually associated with the doctrine that the due process clause of the United States Constitution prohibits or should prohibit the State from regulating contracts between private individuals. Many libertarians and free-market advocates embrace the liberty of contract doctrine because they are averse to State interference with private market transactions. But the term is ironic because a contract is only legally binding if courts will enforce it. Since courts derive their authority because they are the third branch of government, they are State actors and contractual enforcement involves the exercise of the State's powers of coercion. This is problematic because the exercise of coercion by the State impinges on liberty. This article presumes that the fundamental purpose of the State is to advance liberty and provides an analysis of the relationship between liberty and contract rules and doctrines. Since it is distinctly Hayekian in motivation and spirit, it offers what might be called a “Hayekian” or “minimalist” libertarian theory of contracts. From this perspective, modern contract theories focusing on consent and consideration are welcome because they limit the use of State coercion. Contract rules and doctrines that facilitate relational agreements, such as the statute of frauds, a “soft” parol evidence rule, the use of mercantile practices and customs to interpret contract terms, and the use of ADR all help to advance liberty. Contract doctrines such as unconscionability, impracticability, and the unenforceability of agreements that are against public policy may also help to militate against the inappropriate exercise of State coercion.
Download or read book Due Process and Liberty of Contract written by Albert Ehrenzweig and published by . This book was released on 1957 with total page 3 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Liberty of Contract written by Roscoe Pound and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Liberty of Contract and Labor Laws written by American School (Chicago, Ill.) and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 63 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Concept of Liberty in the Age of the American Revolution written by John Phillip Reid and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1988 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Liberty was the most cherished right possessed by English-speaking people in the eighteenth century. It was both an ideal for the guidance of governors and a standard with which to measure the constitutionality of government; both a cause of the American Revolution and a purpose for drafting the United States Constitution; both an inheritance from Great Britain and a reason republican common lawyers continued to study the law of England." As John Philip Reid goes on to make clear, "liberty" did not mean to the eighteenth-century mind what it means today. In the twentieth century, we take for granted certain rights—such as freedom of speech and freedom of the press—with which the state is forbidden to interfere. To the revolutionary generation, liberty was preserved by curbing its excesses. The concept of liberty taught not what the individual was free to do but what the rule of law permitted. Ultimately, liberty was law—the rule of law and the legalism of custom. The British constitution was the charter of liberty because it provided for the rule of law. Drawing on an impressive command of the original materials, Reid traces the eighteenth-century notion of liberty to its source in the English common law. He goes on to show how previously problematic arguments involving the related concepts of licentiousness, slavery, arbitrary power, and property can also be fit into the common-law tradition. Throughout, he focuses on what liberty meant to the people who commented on and attempted to influence public affairs on both sides of the Atlantic. He shows the depth of pride in liberty—English liberty—that pervaded the age, and he also shows the extent—unmatched in any other era or among any other people—to which liberty both guided and motivated political and constitutional action.
