Lochner v. New York: Fundamental rights and economic liberty (National Constitution Center)

(Source: National Constitution Center) (credit: Wikimedia Commons) Note: Landmark Cases , a C-SPAN series on historic Supreme Court decisions-produced in cooperation with the National Constitution Center-continues on Monday, Oct. 19th at 9pm ET. This week's show features Lochner v. New York. In one of the most widely condemned cases in U.S. history, the Supreme Court determined that the right to freely contract is a fundamental right under the 14th Amendment. The story of the Court's 1905 opinion in Lochner v. New York begins in 1895, when New York State passed the Bakeshop Act, one of the state's earliest labor laws, in an effort to regulate sanitary and working conditions in New York...