PSCI 3322 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Thomas Wilson Dorr, Great Depression, Ex Parte Mccardle
8 Feb 2017
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Wednesday, november 12, 2014 3:03 pm: minnesota passes a law preventing banks from foreclosing on homes great depression, many people couldn"t pay their mortgages, supreme court decided that the law was constitutional. This is a state law affecting loans issued in a state. Limited scope on what it did--didn"t forgive debts, just pushed back foreclosure. Interstate banking didn"t really exist at this time. Police powers grant states to act in the public interest: ensuring the well being of the state, sutherland dissent. Potentially for further encroachments on sanctity of contracts. Purpose of provision was to prevent laws relieving debtors. Depression is nothing new, people should not have been so extravagant. Charter for the government of rhode island was in 1663 and is archaic. Dissidents created a new government and elected thomas dorr governor. Charter government declared martial law and asked for federal troops. The new government collapsed and the charter government sought to round up the insurgents.
