QUOTE: Originally posted by nobullchitbids Thanks, Mike, for the history lesson. You forgot to mention that, in the wake of the farmers' victory in Munn v. Illinois, their opponents promptly organized the American Bar Association to "educate" everyone (especially judges) re the sanctity of "contract." The effort obviously worked -- to a point -- since Munn was, indeed, reversed by the case you mentioned. Congress responded with the Interstate Commerce Act in 1887, only to have the courts again water the whole thing down for a time with subsequent decisions. The Grange may still exist, but it lost much its raison d'etre once FDR brought in the New Deal -- today, we consider it common for governments, state and federal, to become involved in economic regulation, but back then, that was a No-no. According to the courts, the Fourteenth Amendment shackled the states while the Fifth Amendment shackled Uncle Sam. The Supreme Court abandoned that doctrine by 1937.
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