The guardian of every other right : the constitutional history of property rights / James W. Ely, Jr
Imprint
New York : Oxford University Press, 1992
Descript
x, 193p. ; 21 cm
CONTENT
The Origins of property rights: the colonial period -- The Revolutionary era, 1765-1787 -- "Property must be secured" establishing a new constitutional order -- The Developing of property rights in the antebellum era, 1791-1861 -- The Gilded age and the challenge of industrialization -- Progressive reform and judicial conservatism, 1900-1932 -- The New deal and the demise of laissez-faire constitutionalism -- Property rihgts and the regulatory state -- Epilogue