The Supreme Court and Minimum Wage Legislation. Compiled by the National Consumers' League. (New York: The New Republic. 1925. Pp. xxviii, 287.) - Constitutional Law. By Charles W. Gerstenberg. (New York: Prentice-Hall, Inc.1926. Pp. 562.)

1926 ◽  
Vol 20 (3) ◽  
pp. 687-688
Author(s):  
Robert E. Cushman
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Supreme Court ◽  
Minimum Wage ◽  
Constitutional Law ◽  
The Supreme Court ◽  
Minimum Wage Legislation ◽  
New Republic

scholarly journals The Supreme Court and Minimum Wage Legislation

1926 ◽  
Vol 39 (7) ◽  
pp. 909 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ray A. Brown ◽  
The National Consumers' League
Keyword(s):  
Supreme Court ◽  
Minimum Wage ◽  
The Supreme Court ◽  
Minimum Wage Legislation

Constitutional Law in 1936–37: The Constitutional Decisions of the Supreme Court of the United States in the October Term, 1936

1938 ◽  
Vol 32 (2) ◽  
pp. 278-310 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert E. Cushman
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Supreme Court ◽  
Minimum Wage ◽  
New Deal ◽  
Constitutional Law ◽  
Political History ◽  
The United States ◽  
The Supreme Court ◽  
Constitutional Decisions

The 1936 term of the Supreme Court will probably be rated a notable one. This is due both to the Court's own work, and to certain extraneous occurrences which could hardly fail to have some impact upon it. In any attempt to evaluate the work of this term, one should bear in mind the following facts: First, a month after the Court convened President Roosevelt was reëlected by one of the most impressive popular and electoral majorities in our political history. Second, in February the President submitted to Congress his proposal for the reorganization of the Supreme Court, including the enlargement of its membership by the addition, up to fifteen, of a new justice for every one remaining on the Court beyond the age of seventy. This proposal aroused violent opposition, the debates on it continued for many months, and ultimately the plan was defeated largely through the efforts of the President's own party. The discussions on this proposal were going on during much of the time in which the Court was sitting. Third, in every case in which New Deal laws were attacked, they were held valid. These results were accomplished in many instances by five-to-four margins, and in the Minimum Wage Case by a five-to-four reversal of a previous five-to-three decision.

scholarly journals The Supreme Court and Minimum Wage Legislation

1926 ◽  
Vol 26 (2) ◽  
pp. 246
Author(s):  
Arthur Garfield Hays ◽  
National Consumers' League
Keyword(s):  
Supreme Court ◽  
Minimum Wage ◽  
The Supreme Court ◽  
Minimum Wage Legislation

scholarly journals Retrospectives: American Economists in the Progressive Era on the Minimum Wage

1999 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 221-230 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert E Prasch
Keyword(s):  
Supreme Court ◽  
Progressive Era ◽  
Minimum Wage ◽  
Paper Briefly ◽  
The Supreme Court ◽  
Minimum Wage Legislation

Beginning in 1912, a number of states passed minimum wage legislation that applied exclusively to women and minors. These tentative experiments in economic legislation ended in 1923 when the Supreme Court overturned the District of Columbia's minimum wage law. Remarkably, at this time virtually all professional American economists supported some variety of minimum wage legislation; however, they did not all give the same reasons. This paper briefly examines the context in which this minimum wage legislation was passed and then surveys several of the arguments that American economists gave in support of minimum wage laws.

Constitutional Law in 1941–1942: The Constitutional Decisions of the Supreme Court of the United States in the October Term, 1941

1943 ◽  
Vol 37 (2) ◽  
pp. 263-289
Author(s):  
Robert E. Cushman
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
New York ◽  
South Carolina ◽  
Supreme Court ◽  
Constitutional Law ◽  
Attorney General ◽  
The United States ◽  
Chief Justice ◽  
The Supreme Court ◽  
Constitutional Decisions

The vacancies on the Supreme Court caused by the retirement of Mr. Justice McReynolds and Chief Justice Hughes were filled by President Roosevelt during the summer of 1941. When the Court convened in October, Mr. Justice Stone, originally appointed by President Coolidge, became Chief Justice. Chief Justice White was the only other associate justice to be promoted to the Chief Justiceship. Senator James F. Byrnes of South Carolina, and Attorney General Robert H. Jackson of New York took their seats as associate justices. Thus seven justices have been placed on the Court by President Roosevelt. Any idea, however, that these Roosevelt appointees conform to any uniform pattern of thought is belied by the fact that in the 75 cases in the 1941 term turning on important questions of either constitutional law or federal statutory construction, there were dissents in 36, and 23 of these dissents were by either three or four justices. No act of Congress has been declared unconstitutional since May, 1936, when the Municipal Bankruptcy Act was held invalid. Since 1937, the Court has overruled 20 previous decisions, mentioning them by name, while it has modified or qualified a number of others.

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