Economic Liberty & the Constitution

3 Credit Hours

The Constitution protects fundamental rights. Once these rights were understood to include the right to engage in economic activity - to freely buy and sell in an unregulated market. The Supreme Court has sometimes embraced that idea, and sometimes has retreated from it. In this class we will examine the trajectory of the idea of economic liberty, examine various historical articulations of it, and consider contemporary efforts to revive it. This course meets the Research Writing Requirement.