The Guardian of Every Other Right

Introduction 1. The Origins of Property Rights: The Colonial Period 2. The Revolutionary Era, 1765-1787 3. "Property Must Be Secured": Establishing a New Constitutional Order 4. The Development of Property Rights in the Antebellum Era, 1791-1861 5. The Gilded Age and the Challenge of Industrialization 6. Progressive Reform and Judicial Conservatism, 1900-1932 7. The New Deal and the Demise of Laissez-Faire Constitutionalism 8. Property Rights and the Regulatory State 9. Epilogue Notes Bibliographical Essay Index