Forest Trail Academy when Liberty of Contract Is Applied to Labor Questions
- What are some the rights enumerated in the Fourteenth Amendment?
- During the Reconstruction era, how did African Americans begin exercising the rights they believed were protected by the Fourteenth Amendment?
- How does the Fourteenth Amendment further the ideals of democracy?
- Why do you think Justice Harlan’s wife brought out the inkstand that Chief Justice Taney had used to write the infamous Dred Scott decision?
- What did Justice Harlan mean when he said “I would rather be right than consistent?”
- How did the Court’s decision in the Civil Rights Cases (1883) change the interpretation of the Fourteenth Amendment?
- Describe the concept of liberty of contract. Why was it described in the video as a “free market ideal?”
- When liberty of contract is applied to labor, who benefits more, the employer or the employee? Please provide your reasons.
- In the video, liberty of contract is referred to as a “made-up doctrine.” Based upon what you know about the Constitution, if you were a justice what sort of doctrine would you pull from the Constitution that would address an issue you see in society today?
- Why did the Supreme Court strike down so much of the New Deal legislation in 1935 and 1936?
- How did attitudes about workers’ rights change during the New Deal?
- Why do you think the Court changed its view of the “liberty of contract” doctrine in West Coast Hotel v. Parrish (1937)? Do you feel this change was the right move for the Court? Why or why not?
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