 | Richard Allen Epstein - Economic liberties (U.S. Constitution) - 2000 - 430 pages
...of the puhlic is not in the slightest degree affected hy such an act. The law must he upheld, if at all, as a law pertaining to the health of the individual engaged in the occupation of a haker. It does not affect any other portion of the puhlic than those who are engaged in that occupation.... | |
 | Steven K. Wisensale - Political Science - 2001 - 316 pages
...arbitrarily violated freedom of contract. Justice Rufus W. Peckham wrote the majority opinion for the court. "Clean and wholesome bread does not depend upon whether...but ten hours per day or only sixty hours a week. . . . Statutes of the nature under review, limiting the hours in which grown and intelligent men may... | |
 | John W. Johnson - Law - 2001 - 608 pages
...labor. It seemed incredible to Peckham that hours of work could be construed as a public health issue; "wholesome bread does not depend upon whether the...but ten hours per day or only sixty hours a week." To be a health measure, the protection must be for the general public and extend beyond the worker... | |
 | William M. Wiecek - History - 2001 - 300 pages
...health, it had no relation at all to public health, including that of the people who ate the bread: "[C]lean and wholesome bread does not depend upon whether the baker works but ten hours per day." The right to contract was a limitation on the states' police powers, and the role of the judiciary... | |
 | Richard Panchyk, Senator John Kerry, James Baker, Nadine Strossen - Juvenile Nonfiction - 2007 - 209 pages
...parade, 1909. bread — was also likely to suffer. The majority thought this was not necessarily true: "Clean and wholesome bread does not depend upon whether...but ten hours per day or only sixty hours a week." Was baking itself unhealthy? It was not among the healthiest of trades, but there were also occupations... | |
 | Kermit L. Hall, John J. Patrick - History - 2006 - 257 pages
..."[W]holesome bread," Peckham wrote in one of the most memorable phrases of American constitutional history, "does not depend upon whether the baker works but ten hours per day or only sixty hours a week." By asserting a standard of reasonableness in measuring a legislative act the justices were effectively... | |
 | Mark Tushnet - Law - 2008 - 260 pages
...and did not challenge, the provisions in the statute that were clearly related to health and safety.) "Clean and wholesome bread does not depend upon whether the baker works but ten hours a day. . . ." Nor could the Court see why bakeries were any different from other workplaces: upholding... | |
 | Hugo Emil Rudolph Arndt - Medical - 1909 - 690 pages
...of the public is not in the slightest degree affected by such an act. The law must be upheld, if at all, as a law pertaining to the health of the individual...but ten hours per day or only sixty hours a week." It will be seen that this opinion assumes two propositions of fact : ( i ) That the public has no concern... | |
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The law must be upheld, if at all, as a law pertaining to the health of the individual engaged in the occupation of a baker. 
