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By Clint Bolick

ISBN-10: 0817913149

ISBN-13: 9780817913144

In an 1873 determination, the perfect court docket by means of a 5–4 vote—highly strange in these days—upheld a bribery-procured Louisiana slaughterhouse monopoly that were challenged via a gaggle of butchers whose companies have been jeopardized. by means of that call, known as The Slaughter-House Cases, the most vital and invaluable items of the Civil War—a innovative constitutional provision meant to guard civil rights opposed to oppression by means of kingdom governments—was nullified. The repercussions of that unlucky selection are nonetheless being felt today.


In Death Grip: Loosening the Law’s Stranglehold Over fiscal Liberty, Clint Bolick appears to be like on the kingdom of financial liberty in our kingdom this day and explains how the results of Slaughter-House proceed to happen themselves to at the present time. Bolick examines the heritage and motive of the 14th modification and the judicial nullification of the privileges or immunities clause within the Slaughter-House Cases and their aftermath over the years. taking a look at more moderen judgements, he sees wish within the present crusade to revive fiscal liberty as a basic civil correct. Armed with wisdom, ardour, and dedication to precept, he concludes, we will win the conflict to revive fiscal liberty as soon as and for all.

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