The Neutrality Principle: The Hidden Yet Powerful Legal Axiom at Work in Brown versus Board of Education

dc.contributor.authorHacker, Hans J.
dc.contributor.authorBlake, William D.
dc.date.accessioned2020-07-27T16:12:58Z
dc.date.available2020-07-27T16:12:58Z
dc.date.issued2013-04
dc.description.abstractPerhaps the question most animating debate among constitutional historians involves two vilified Supreme Court decisions-Plessy v. Ferguson and Lochner v. New York. What strange logic allowed the United States Supreme Court within a nine-year period to sustain state interference with private rights of association (typified by its decision in Plessy) and strike down state regulation of economic associative rights (typified by its decision in Lochner)? In sustaining state regulation intended to separate the races, the Court appeared to defend states' concern for public welfare over a private associative right. However, in striking down state legislation regulating working conditions by imposing maximum work hour and minimum wage requirements, the Court appeared to do exactly the opposite. It defended an economic associative right over the states' concerns for public health and welfare.en_US
dc.description.sponsorshipThe authors wish to acknowledge Professors Gordon Wood, Larry Kramer and other participants in the 2003 Supreme Court Historical Society Summer Seminar for their comments and critique of this work. Further, Lawrence Baum, David Bernstein, Howard Gillman and Kermit Hall reviewed versions of this project and likewise made valuable comments.en_US
dc.format.extent58 pagesen_US
dc.genrejournal articlesen_US
dc.identifierdoi:10.13016/m26pqn-up8a
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11603/19243
dc.language.isoen_USen_US
dc.publisherHans J. Hacker and William D. Blake, The Neutrality Principle: The Hidden Yet Powerful Legal Axiom at Work in Brown versus Board of Education, 8 Berkeley J. Afr.-Am. L. & Pol'y 5 (2006). Available at: http://scholarship.law.berkeley.edu/bjalp/vol8/iss1/2en_US
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dc.relation.ispartofUMBC Political Science
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dc.titleThe Neutrality Principle: The Hidden Yet Powerful Legal Axiom at Work in Brown versus Board of Educationen_US
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