Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2008
Abstract
Professor McAffee reviews substantive due process as the textual basis for modern fundamental rights constitutional decision-making. He contends that we should avoid both the undue literalism that rejects the idea of implied rights, as well as the attempt to substitute someone’s preferred moral vision for the limits, and compromises, that are implicit in—and intended by—the Constitution’s text. He argues, moreover, that we can largely harmonize the various goals of our constitutional system by taking rights seriously and understanding that securing rights does not exhaust the Constitution’s purpose.
Publication Citation
42 U. Rich. L. Rev. 101 (2008).
Recommended Citation
McAffee, Thomas B., "Overcoming Lochner in the Twenty-First Century: Taking Both Rights and Popular Sovereignty Seriously as We Seek to Secure Equal Citizenship and Promote the Public Good" (2008). Scholarly Works. 518.
https://scholars.law.unlv.edu/facpub/518