The debate over the constitutional revolution of 1937

American Historical Review

Volumn 110, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 1046-1050

  Brinkley, Alan ^a  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

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EID: 33749866925     PISSN: 00028762     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/ahr.110.4.1046     Document Type: Review

References (11)

1. William E. Leuchtenburg, The Supreme Court Reborn: The Constitutional Revolution in the Age of Roosevelt (New York, 1996).
2. See, e.g., Barry Cushman, "Rethinking the New Deal Court," Virginia Law Review 80 (1994): 201, 260-261;
3. Cushman, Rethinking the New Deal Court: The Structure of a Constitutional Revolution (New York, 1998);
4. Richard Friedman, "Switching Time and Other Thought Experiments: The Hughes Court and Constitutional Transformation," University of Pennsylvania Law Review 142 (1994): 1891-1984;
5. G. Edward White, The Constitution and the New Deal (Cambridge, Mass., 2000).
6. Morton J. Horwitz. The Transformation of American Law, 1780-1860 (Cambridge, Mass., 1977), 17-18, 257-258.
7. William Novak, The People's Welfare: Law and Regulation in Nineteenth-Century America (Chapel Hill, N.C., 1996).
8. In response to the growing demand from the right in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries for a "literal interpretation" of the Constitution, historians have sought to demonstrate that even among the framers themselves, there were many different interpretations of the document - that there is, in fact, no clear "original intent" to which later generations can usefully refer. See, for example, Jack Rakove, Original Meanings: Politics and Ideas in the Making of the Constitution (New York, 1996)
9. and Lance Banning, The Sacred Fire of Liberty: James Madison and the Founding of the Federal Republic (Ithaca, N.Y., 1995).
10. Laura Kalman, Legal Realism at Yale, 1927-1960 (Chapel Hill, N.C., 1986).
11. Charles Evans Hughes, in his majority opinion arguing that freedom of contract had to compete against other interests, wrote: "What is this freedom? The Constitution does not speak of freedom of contract." West Coast Hotel Co. v. Parrish, 300 U.S. 379 (1937).