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Jeremy Bentham, The Contract Clause And Justice John Archibald Campbell, John R. Schmidhauser
Jeremy Bentham, The Contract Clause And Justice John Archibald Campbell, John R. Schmidhauser
Vanderbilt Law Review
Conflicts between the desire to meet the felt needs of society and the desire to maintain existing property rights have long perplexed modern governments. The methods adopted for the resolution of such conflicts quite naturally reflect the prevailing social and political ideology in each nation. In the United States in the period of the Philadelphia Convention, the prevailing temper, at least among the influential, was one of insistence upon the preservation of the sanctity of private property. This insistence and the widespread public reverence for law and judicial institutions determined that state interference with or modification of private contracts be …