How to Build a Nation in 15 Weeks

The Child Labor Amendment


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Popular opinion rises against child labor, and the Supreme Court shrugs. Congress tries again, but the Court is unmoved. Congress passes an amendment, ratification stalls, we take a detour through Kansas, and questions about the ratification process are raised but not settled. Eight years of the Great Depression and court-packing threats cause a change in constitutional thinking, and the Court shifts away from property rights as the fundamental guarantees of liberty.

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How to Build a Nation in 15 WeeksBy Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP

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