The U.S. Supreme Court and American Constitutional Law

Resource 10 . 2 . 1

5 minutes

Allgeyer v. Louisiana, 165 U.S. 578 (1897)

Alan K. Chen

This case is a typical example of the turn-of-the-century Supreme Court's reasoning about the concept that the right to contract is a liberty protected from state interference by the Due Process Clause.

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