The Double Standard of Constitutional Protection in the Era of the Welfare State
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4286446 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Richard Funston (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1975 |
| Volume | 90 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 261-287 |
| Publication date | 1975-06-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Political Science Quarterly (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0032-3195 • E-ISSN: 1538-165X |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/2148237 |
| OpenAlex | W2325032580 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
More than a third of a century ago Justice Harlan Fiske Stone labored and brought forth an opinion for the Supreme Court in the case of United States v. Carolene Produicts Co.1 The case was a pedestrian one, dealing with government regulation of adulterated milk, and Stone's opinion was in keeping with its character. Indeed, the decision might have passed into obscurity with the vast bulk of the Court's nonlandmark cases, had Stone not chosen the occasion to announce in a footnote an entirely new doctrine of judicial review. Hidden in the interstices of Carolene Produicts is, as every serious student of constitutional law knows, the famous Footnote Four.9 In essence what Footnote Four did, or attempted to do, was to postulate a dichotomy between so-called civil or personal rights and so-called property rights and then to suggest that the standard for judicial review of legislation assertedly violating these different rights would itself be different. Alleged infringements of economic rights would be subjected to a minimal inquiry, but government actions
Character (mathematics) · Constitutional law · Constitutional right · Doctrine · Economic Justice · Government (linguistics) · Judicial review · Legislation · Political science · State (computer science) · Supreme court · American Constitutional Law and Politics · Law · Law, Rights, and Freedoms · Legal Systems and Judicial Processes · Philosophy
| Citations per year | 0.13 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 1978 - 2015 (38) |
| Highly cited | No |