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- Constitutions in Times of Financial Crisis
- Constitutions in Times of Financial Crisis
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Foreword
- I The Role of Constitutions in Dealing with Crises
- II Courts and Crises
- III Supranational Governance and Crisis
- IV Implementing Austerity
- V The Effect of Crises on Constitutions
- Index
II - Courts and Crises
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 08 June 2019
- Constitutions in Times of Financial Crisis
- Constitutions in Times of Financial Crisis
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Foreword
- I The Role of Constitutions in Dealing with Crises
- II Courts and Crises
- III Supranational Governance and Crisis
- IV Implementing Austerity
- V The Effect of Crises on Constitutions
- Index
Summary
The American constitutional law of political economy underwent significant transformations in the years between the Wall Street Crash of 1929 and the Allied victory in World War II. Both state and federal power to regulate economic activity were enhanced substantially. The reasons for these developments have been explored at length in a voluminous literature. 1 This chapter considers the role that conditions of economic crisis might have played in cases involving judicial review of economic regulation.
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- Constitutions in Times of Financial Crisis , pp. 93 - 184Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2019