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Perspective

Feb. 11, 2011

'Freedom to Contract’ Is Hardly Ideal

Robert Bezemek of Oakland reacts to David N. Mayer's book "Liberty of Contract: Rediscovering a Lost Constitutional Right."

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR COLUMN

Professor David N. Mayer's book should be recognized as really advocating a return to the day when the Constitution was wrongly interpreted to subjugate citizens to monopoly power, when there were no labor or civil rights laws, when a landowner could insert a restrictive covenant into a realty contract - the ultimate example of his "freedom to contract." I observed this "freedom to contract" when I worked briefly for the Civil ...

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