POS2041 Lecture Notes - Lecture 38: Fourteenth Amendment To The United States Constitution, Commerce Clause, National Grange Of The Order Of Patrons Of Husbandry
17 Aug 2020
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The case developed as a result of the illinois legislature responding in 1871 to pressure from the. National grange, an association of farmers, by setting maximum rates that private companies could charge for the storage and transport of agricultural products. The chicago grain warehouse firm of munn and scott was subsequently found guilty of violating the law but appealed the conviction on the grounds that the illinois regulation represented an unconstitutional deprivation of property without due process of law. Munn v. illinois, one of the granger cases, was a watershed in the struggle for public regulation of private enterprise. Later court decisions, however, sharply curtailed the government"s power to regulate business: constitutional question. Whether the state-imposed rates denied the warehouse and elevator owners equal protection and due process under the 14th amendment: conclusion. The supreme court heard the appeal in 1877.
