Category: At Home
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Personal Liberty
Personal Liberty (Constitution at Home in Wartime)Liberty.&emdash;"The Constitution of the United States is a law for rulers and people, equally in war and in peace, and covers with the shield of its protection all classes of men, at all times, and under all circumstances. No doctrine, involvin…
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Price Controls
Rent and Price Controls (Constitution at Home in Wartime)Even at a time when the Court was using substantive due process to void economic regulations, it generally sustained such regulations in wartime. Thus, shortly following the end of World War I, it sustained, by a narrow margin, a rent control …
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Eminent Domain
Eminent Domain (Constitution at Home in Wartime)An oft-cited dictum uttered shortly after the Mexican War asserted the right of an owner to compensation for property destroyed to prevent its falling into the hands of the enemy, or for that taken for public use.<a name=t1 href=#f1 target="_self&…
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Enemy Aliens
Enemy Aliens (Constitution at Home in Wartime)The Alien Enemy Act of 1798 authorized the President to deport any alien or to license him to reside within the United States at any place to be designated by the President.1 Though critical of the measur…