Explain how the Supreme Court used the due process clause to protect businesses from regulation by the federal and state governments

What will be an ideal response?


An ideal response will:
1, Recall that the due process clause provides that no state "may deprive any person of life, liberty, or property without due process of law."
2, Identify Santa Clara Countyv.Southern Pacific Railroad(1886) as the case in which the Supreme Court held that corporations were "persons" under the Fourteenth Amendment.
3, Discuss how the Court in Santa Clara, and later in Lochnerv.New York(1905), held that labor regulations infringed on the "liberty" protected by the Fourteenth Amendment.

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