PSC 324 Lecture Notes - Lecture 21: Agricultural Adjustment Act, Childrens Hospital, Rational Basis Review
12 Sep 2018
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A new constitution for a new age: giving fresh consideration to the constitutionality of minimum wage laws. Do we have a living constitution : justice cardozo, justice jackson, justice frankfurter, justice holmes, chief justice hughes, justice sutherland, dissenting, giving fresh consideration to the constitutionality of minimum wage laws. Justice holmes: minimum wage is reasonable, there is a rational basis. Justice sutherland: benefits one over a majority of people (aids women workers at the expense of their employers) 1933: fdr urges 13 industrial states to enact minimum wage laws to benefit public interest, to adopt laws the supreme court said were unconstitutional. States, however, abide by the president but is strike down in 1936 in. Justice stone dissents, similar opinion to holmes. In march 1937, they uphold the law (a major reversal) in west coast. Hotel v. parrish (1937); just in time to save 9 . Now he is voting to uphold the laws he used to strike down.
