{"product_id":"9780226043180","title":"Rehabilitating Lochner: Defending Individual Rights against Progressive Reform","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn this timely reevaluation of an infamous Supreme Court decision, David E. Bernstein provides a compelling survey of the history and background of \u003ci\u003eLochner v. New York\u003c\/i\u003e. 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, \u003ci\u003eRehabilitating Lochner\u003c\/i\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eLochner\u003c\/i\u003e proponents as to the more expansive vision of its Progressive opponents.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTracing the influence of this decision through subsequent battles over segregation laws, sex discrimination, civil liberties, and more, \u003ci\u003eRehabilitating Lochner\u003c\/i\u003e argues not only that the court acted reasonably in \u003ci\u003eLochner,\u003c\/i\u003e but that \u003ci\u003eLochner\u003c\/i\u003e and like-minded cases have been widely misunderstood and unfairly maligned ever since.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Chicago Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47120135782640,"sku":"9780226043180","price":22.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780226043180_p0.jpg?v=1765232813","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780226043180","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}