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Government as Liberty's Servant: The
- Author(s):
- HC Admin (see profile) , Michael A. Lawrence
- Date:
- 2007
- Group(s):
- MSU Law Faculty Repository
- Subject(s):
- Constitutional law, Jurisprudence, Law, History
- Item Type:
- Article
- Tag(s):
- liberty, supreme court, presumption of constitutionality, La. L. Rev., FacPubs, Legal history, Other law
- Permanent URL:
- http://dx.doi.org/10.17613/hjbm-8148
- Abstract:
- This essay suggests that the American legal system fails to do proper justice to the robust conception of Liberty under which the nation was founded, and locates a major source of the problem in the Supreme Court’s current presumption-of-constitutionality approach to judicial review, prompted by post-New Deal backlash to Lochner v. New York. This essay offers a new due process clause-based presumption-of-liberty standard of judicial review, modeled on the Court’s existing First Amendment “reasonable time, place and manner” doctrine. This approach, already utilized narrowly by the Third Circuit Federal Court of Appeals in Lutz v. York in 1990, more accurately reflects the Constitution’s core Liberty-First ideals, while also recognizing the proper police-power role of government.
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- Published as:
- Journal article
- Status:
- Published
- Last Updated:
- 2 years ago
- License:
- Attribution-NonCommercial
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