Document Type
Article
Publication Date
12-1993
ISSN
0040-4411
Publisher
The Texas Law Review Association
Language
en-US
Abstract
I. Introduction A. The Flights from Substance in Constitutional Theory A specter is haunting constitutional theory-the specter of Lochner v. New York.' In the Lochner era, the Supreme Court gave heightened judicial protection to substantive economic liberties through the Due Process Clauses.2 In 1937, during the constitutional revolution wrought by the New Deal, West Coast Hotel v. Parrish3 officially repudiated the Lochner era, marking the first death of substantive due process.4 Nevertheless, the ghost of Lochner has perturbed constitutional theory ever since, manifesting itself in charges that judges are "Lochnering" by imposing their own substantive fundamental values in the guise of interpreting the Constitution.
Recommended Citation
James E. Fleming,
Constructing the Substantive Constitution
,
in
72
Texas Law Review
211
(1993).
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