POLS 155 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: List Of The X-Family Characters, Judicial Procedures Reform Bill Of 1937, Marble Cake
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Industrial revolution- large firms exploited markets and worked neither level of governments regulated business activity: 1886 supreme court rules- corporations are persons under 14th amendment. Hammer v. dagenhart (1918: 1916 federal act banned interstate shipment of goods produced with child labor, court invalidated law (judicial review) citing 10th amendment -- only states could regulate factory practices, but . Court prevented state from regulating labor practices b/c business property rights protected under 14th amendment. The great depression people turned to federal government. At first, supreme court ruled much of new deal economic recovery unconstitutional, but . Switch of supreme court s views : fdr proposed court packing plan switch in time saves nine , resulted in great expansion of national authority - more focus on equality, for example . Garcia v. san antonio transit authority (1985) state and local governments must pay federal minimum wage and overtime (commerce clause).