...arises: is this a fair, reasonable and appropriate exercise of the police power of the State, or is it an unreasonable, unnecessary and arbitrary interference...necessary for the support of himself and his family? Of course, the liberty of contract relating to labor includes both parties to it. The one has as much...

...dissent from the Lochner case that struck down a New York maximum-working-hours regulation for bakers as "an unreasonable, unnecessary, and arbitrary interference...necessary for the support of himself and his family," Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes denounced the majority for interfering with the democratic process.15...

...bakers to no more than ten hours a day and sixty hours a week. The Court invalidated the statute as an: "unreasonable, unnecessary and arbitrary interference...appropriate or necessary for the support of himself and his family."33 Basing the decision on the abstract liberty of contract, the Court ignored the reality that...

...whether "this [is] a fair, reasonable and appropriate exercise of the police power of the State, or ... an unreasonable, unnecessary and arbitrary interference...individual to his personal liberty or to enter into . . . contracts."12 The substantive principles of classical thought meshed with the social vision of...

...was, "Is this a fair, reasonable, and appropriate exercise of the police power of the state, or is it an unreasonable, unnecessary, and arbitrary interference...necessary for the support of himself and his family?" Justice Peckham's answer to this question for the Court was, "The employee may desire to earn the extra...

...arises: is this a fair, reasonable and appropriate exercise of the police power of the State, or is it ege regulations that offend conscience, as was the...free to act as though we were a super-legislature. Of course, the liberty of contract relating to labor includes both parties to it. The one has as much...

...issue is "a fair, reasonable, and appropriate exercise of the police powers of the states, or is it an unreasonable, unnecessary, and arbitrary interference...right of the individual to his personal liberty." If legislatures could impose limits on the freedom to contract in the case of such relatively normal...

...was, "Is this a fair, reasonable and appropriate exercise of the police power of the State, or is it an unreasonable, unnecessary and arbitrary interference...necessary for the support of himself and his family?" The Court did not see how there was any real connection between working no more than ten hours and...