...paragraphs long, does not waste any time with formal haggling over legal terms. The opening sentence states: "This case is decided upon an economic theory which a large part of the country does not entertain" (MFJH 1905, 148). In other words, the justices who struck down the law were arguing from an implied...

...Fourteenth Amendment; for him these were petty technicalities to be swept away by the power of his rhetoric. "This case is decided upon an economic theory which a large part of the country does not entertain," he began confidently. "If it were a question whether I agreed with that theory I should desire to study...

...Rückhalt in der Verfassung der demokratischen Mehrheit ihre subjektiven Wertauffassungen aufzunötigen:48 „This case is decided upon an economic theory which a large part of the country does not entertain ... I think that thc word liberty in the Fourteenth amendment is perverted when it is held to prevent...

...the law a century later. In dissent, the authoritarian Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes proclaimed that "[t]his case is decided upon an economic theory which a large part of the country does not entertain," namely, the "shibboleth" of "[t]he liberty of the citizen to do as he likes so long as he does not...