How Progressives Rewrote the Constitution.(Book review)

Michigan Law Review, April, 2007 by Wolf, Michael Allan

How Progressives Rewrote The Constitution. By Richard A. Epstein. Washington, D.C.: Cato Institute. 2006. Pp. xiii, 156. $15.95.

INTRODUCTION

The utmost possible liberty to the individual, and the fullest possible protection to him and his property, is both the limitation and duty of government. If it may regulate the price of one service, which is not a public service, or the compensation for the use of one kind of property which is not devoted to a public use, why may it not with equal reason regulate the price of all service, and the compensation to be paid for the use of all property? And if so, "Looking Backward" is nearer than a dream.

--Justice David J. Brewer (1)

In the 1888 novel Looking Backward, Edward Bellamy dreamed up a...

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