Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. Quote

A Constitution is not intended to embody a particular economic theory... It is made for people of fundamentally differing views, and the accident of our finding certain opinions natural and familiar, or novel, and even shocking, ought not to conclude our judgment upon the question whether statutes embodying them conflict with the Constitution of the United States.


198 U.S. at 76 - Lochner v. New York, 198 U.S. 45 (1905)


A Constitution is not intended to embody a particular economic theory... It is made for people of fundamentally differing views, and the accident of...

A Constitution is not intended to embody a particular economic theory... It is made for people of fundamentally differing views, and the accident of...

A Constitution is not intended to embody a particular economic theory... It is made for people of fundamentally differing views, and the accident of...

A Constitution is not intended to embody a particular economic theory... It is made for people of fundamentally differing views, and the accident of...