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by Adam Winkler


  Jehovah’s Witnesses, 268–72

  Jenyns, Soame, 28–29

  Jerome, William Travers, 226–27

  Jetsons, The (TV show) 303–4

  Jews, 211, 239–40

  Jim Crow laws, xv, 63–64, 159, 257, 259–62, 264, 275, 276–78

  John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance Co., 305

  Johnson, Joseph P., 260–62

  Johnson, Lyndon B., 327

  Johnson, William, 53, 55–56, 61, 62

  Joint Committee on Reconstruction, 114, 130, 131, 133–36, 144

  joint-stock companies, 26, 380–81

  Jones, Walter, Jr., 375

  Jordan, Lynn, 290–92, 294, 295, 297, 299

  J. P. Morgan & Co., 203–4, 227

  judges, 59, 149–50, 239, 277, 292, 297, 308–9, 326, 343, 368–69, 382–89, 393

  judicial activism, 277, 297, 308–9, 326, 368–69

  judicial restraint, 308–9

  Judiciary Act (1789), 42, 53, 58, 60, 63, 400

  “Jump Jim Crow,” 159

  juries, xvi, 23, 24, 121, 164, 172–73, 282, 283, 359, 369, 400

  Justice Department, US, 162, 172

  Kagan, Elena, 358–59, 361–62, 380

  Kansas, 109, 223

  Keller, Morton, 206

  Kennedy, Anthony, 350, 356–57, 363–66, 363

  Kennedy, John F., 296

  Kent, James, 128

  Kentucky, 221–22

  Keppler, Joseph, 196–97, 196, 212

  kerosene, in home illumination, 141

  Kerry, John, 328

  Key, Francis Scott, 59

  Key, Philip Barton, 59–60, 60, 344

  Kilberg, William, 344, 348

  King, Martin Luther, Jr., 257, 349

  King, Rufus, 5, 149

  King & Spalding, 346

  “king’s consent,” 48–49

  kinsmen, 168

  Kirland & Ellis, 346

  knights, 168

  Kraft Foods, 302

  Ku Klux Klan, 265

  labor unions, 219, 287, 289, 326, 329–33, 334, 359, 361, 363, 403

  Lacombe, Emile Henry, 175, 177

  laissez-faire capitalism, 88, 154, 360–61

  Lake Charles American-Press, 250

  Lamberth, Royce, 343

  Landes, William, 350

  land grants, 14–15, 18, 21, 78, 82, 106, 118–19, 123

  Landon, Alf M., 330

  Lansing Brewing Co., 223–26, 225, 335

  Late Corporation of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints v. United States, The, 261

  law:

  Anglo-American, 24, 30, 46–47, 66–67

  of assemblies, 19–20, 21, 22, 24

  automobile safety, 285–86

  bankruptcy, 88

  British, 45–46, 62, 63, 66–67

  by-, 49

  case, 244

  contract, 28, 45, 48, 49–50, 76, 78, 96–97, 146, 154, 155, 159, 181, 182–83, 184, 187–88, 221–22, 246, 261, 275–76, 353, 369, 388, 400

  corporate, xxii, 28–29, 46–47, 50–52, 87, 163, 168–69, 170, 184–85, 189, 193–94, 207, 209–10, 244–45, 248, 261, 271–72, 382–89

  criminal, 51, 164, 176–77, 179

  due process of, xvi

  environmental, 49, 280, 389–94

  federal, 149–53, 178–79, 238, 261, 276, 280, 298, 379–80, 392–94, 403

  health, xvi–xvii, 126–27, 378–82, 387

  insurance, 209–10

  Jim Crow, xv, 63–64, 159, 257, 259–62, 264, 275, 276–78

  labor, 49, 99, 153–54, 158

  landmark cases in, 120, 181–82, 263–64, 323

  local and municipal, 240, 241–42, 292–93, 389–94

  loopholes in, 306–7, 329, 351

  martial, 16

  “of the land,” 63

  political impact of, 232

  precedent in, 76, 138, 146, 156, 157, 181–82, 241–42, 244, 266–67, 337, 357, 369, 371, 392

  public nuisance, 241–42

  repugnancy principle in, 63, 82

  Roman, 44–45, 49, 184, 399

  social change and, xvii

  state, 53–54, 61, 97–103, 115, 118–19, 131–32, 148, 150, 176–77, 179, 180–81, 209, 220–21, 223, 238, 240, 241–44, 275–76, 290–300, 360, 392

  workplace, 49

  zoning, 158

  law and economics movement, 352–53, 366

  law reviews, 294–95, 299, 385–86

  law schools, 120, 134–36, 150, 176, 294–95, 299, 341, 385–86

  lawsuits, 262–64, 277, 291, 292, 298–300, 306, 320, 322, 324–25, 350, 375, 388, 390, 391–94, 400–401

  lawyer’s fees, 122, 346

  Ledbetter v. Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co., 350

  Lee, Rex, 345, 346

  legal profession, 35, 53, 71, 113–14, 121, 135, 142–43, 161–63, 164, 193–94, 242, 264, 290, 292, 295, 297–98, 299, 343–48

  legal services advertising, 292, 295, 296, 297–98, 299

  legislative branch, 21, 88–89

  legislatures, state, 21, 77–78, 82, 83–84, 87, 88–89, 92, 100, 104, 123–25, 129, 160, 163, 221–22, 226, 237, 243, 276, 338–40

  Leland Stanford Junior University, 140

  Letter from Birmingham Jail (King), 257

  “letters of marque and reprisal,” 7

  libel, 250, 255

  liberalism, xviii–xix, 250–55, 273, 281, 282, 296–97, 298, 308–9, 314, 325, 326–27, 336, 337, 347, 348–50, 355–58, 379, 380

  libertarianism, 140, 240, 302, 336–37, 341, 351, 356, 357, 358

  liberty and personal rights, xx, 5, 19–21, 24, 28, 31, 47–48, 62, 92, 184, 187–90, 192, 213–14, 231, 252–53, 256, 274–75, 360

  Liberty Bell, 24

  liberty of contract, 154, 155, 159, 181, 182–83, 187–88, 221–22, 246

  licorice, 166–67, 175

  Liebling, A. J., 255

  life insurance, 183–84, 185, 191–96, 202–7, 208, 211–12, 226–27, 265–67

  see also specific companies

  Lincoln, Abraham, 47, 127, 149, 223

  liquidity, 38–39

  liquor industry, 223–26, 299–300

  listeners’ rights, 282, 294–300, 317–23, 335–36, 360, 364–68, 402

  literacy rates, 118, 167

  literacy tests, 159, 260

  litter laws, 292–93

  “Little Rock Nine,” 272

  livestock, 156

  Lloyd, Henry Demarest, 171–72, 280

  loans, 26–27, 39, 40, 78, 93

  local government, 238, 240, 241–42, 292–93, 389–94

  Lochner v. New York, xix–xx, 154, 155, 157, 158, 165, 180–85, 182, 189, 190, 192, 222, 226, 228, 231, 234, 248, 251, 259, 272, 319, 387–88, 393, 401

  Long, Huey “Kingfish,” xxiii, 234–36, 235, 242–55, 259, 264, 293, 319–20, 365, 392

  Long’s Tavern, 57–58, 59, 79

  “Loose Lips Sink Ships,” 300

  Louisiana, 124, 125, 126–28, 160, 234–36, 237, 242–55, 256, 263, 293, 310, 319–20, 360, 365, 393

  Louisiana Act No. 23, 237

  Louis K. Liggett Company v. Lee, 214

  Louisville, Cincinnati & Charleston Railroad Company v. Letson, 107

  Loving v. Virginia, 64

  Loyalists, 38, 59

  Luna y Arellano, Tristan de, 11

  Lux Radio Theatre, 330

  lynchings, 260–61

  MacAndrews & Forbes Licorice Co., 161–62, 166–67, 170–76, 179, 180, 183, 185, 187–88, 189, 226

  MacArthur, Douglas, 367

  “machine politics,” 197–98, 234–36, 243–44

  Madison, James, 3, 4, 69

  Madison Square Park, xii

  Magna Carta, 8, 160, 330

  majority rule, xviii, 207

  malpractice, legal, 143

  malt liquor, 223

  managerial capitalism, 122–23

  Manhattan Institute, 302

  Mansfield, Lord, 28

  Manship, Charles, 235–36, 237, 244, 249, 253, 256<
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  manufacturing, xv, 92, 178, 245–48

  Marbury v. Madison, 62–63

  Mark, Greg, 145

  market ideology, xix, 87, 88, 140, 163, 170–71, 251, 252–55, 281, 286, 288, 300, 301, 302, 316, 321, 352–53, 360–61, 383–84

  “marketplace of ideas,” 240, 251, 252–55, 287–88, 302, 336

  Mark Twain Company of New York, 155

  Marlboro cigarettes, 321

  marriage contracts, 137

  Marsh, Grace, 268–72

  Marshall, Alexander, 103–4, 107

  Marshall, John, xix, 42, 62–63, 64, 65–70, 65, 74–75, 82–88, 90, 94, 95–96, 101, 107, 108, 145, 256, 392, 393, 394, 400

  Marshall, Thurgood, xxii, xxiii, 73, 74–75, 95–96, 108, 259, 262–64, 263, 313, 315, 316–17, 341

  Marshall court, 74–75, 95–96, 108

  Marshall v. Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Company, 103–8, 105, 109, 197, 400

  Marsh v. Alabama, 268–72, 402

  Martin, Richard, 13

  Maryland, 90, 106, 107, 124, 385

  Mason, George, 4

  Massachusetts, 28, 95–97, 109, 211, 305–23, 377

  Massachusetts Bay Company, 5, 19–25, 20, 26, 31, 86, 127, 207, 270, 399

  Massachusetts Supreme Court, 211, 307

  Mayflower, 6, 16–17

  McCain, John, 344

  McConnell, Mitch, 336, 358–59

  McConnell v. Federal Election Commission, 335–36, 356, 357, 358–59, 360, 361, 364, 368, 369, 371, 403

  McCormick, Robert, 241–42, 249

  McCulloch v. Maryland, 69, 90

  McCurdy, Richard A., 206

  McDonald’s restaurants, 386

  McKenna, Joseph, 182

  McKinley, William, 163, 198–202, 208–9, 320, 401

  McLane, Louis, 93

  McReynolds, James, 251, 252

  Means, Gardiner, xviii, 205

  Meat Inspection Act (1906), 177

  Medtronic, Inc., 322–23, 347

  membership lists, 272–75

  merchants, 27, 28–29

  Merck & Co., 372

  Meredith, William, 28

  Mexico, 7, 389

  Meyer v. Nebraska, 184

  Michigan, 224, 335, 353, 402

  Michigan Supreme Court, 224, 402

  Middle Ages, 168

  middlemen, 27, 28–29

  military draft, 238

  militias, 260

  Milledge, John, 41

  Miller, Arthur, 350

  Miller, Samuel, 113–14, 127–28, 132–34, 138, 147

  “Mind Is a Terrible Thing to Waste, The,” 300

  minimum wage, xv, 158, 180–81

  mining, 45

  Minneapolis, 241–42

  Minneapolis & St. Louis Railway Company v. Beckwith, 155–56, 157

  Minnesota, 241–42

  “Minnesota Twins,” 297

  “Minority Business Enterprises,” 276

  minority set-aside programs, 276, 277–78

  Mintz, Morton, 285–86

  Miranda warnings, 176

  Mississippi River, 126–27

  Model T automobile, 245

  Modern Corporation and Private Property, The, (Berle and Means), 205

  monarchy, 43, 48–49, 78

  money supply, 93

  monopolies, 90, 95–97, 127, 163, 172, 196–97, 234–35, 280, 320

  see also trusts

  Monopoly (board game), 104

  Monsanto Co., 320–21

  Montana, 372–73, 375

  Montgomery bus boycott (1955), 257

  Moore, Michael, 327–28, 329

  Moor’s Indian Charity School, 76

  Mora Community Water Rights and Self-Governance Act (2013), 389–94

  Mora County Commission, 389–94, 390

  Morgan, J. P., 181, 191, 194, 203–4, 227

  Mormon Church, 261

  Morris, Gouverneur, 5

  Morris, Robert, 5

  Morrison, Alan, 289–300, 291, 305, 318, 322

  Morse, Samuel F. B., 106, 107

  mortgages, 118–19, 144

  Mother Jones, 343

  Move to Amend, 375

  “Mr. Dooley,” 208

  muckraking journalism, 171–72, 177, 280, 285

  murder, 137–38

  mutual funds, 384–88

  Mutual Life Insurance Co., 205

  NAACP Legal Defense Fund, 262

  NAACP v. Alabama ex rel. Patterson, 256–57, 262–64, 265, 272–75, 273, 333, 374, 402

  NAACP v. Button, 274

  Nader, Nathra, 289

  Nader, Ralph, xxiii, 280, 281, 282, 283, 285–86, 287, 289–300, 301, 302, 304, 305, 308, 318, 321, 322, 365, 402

  Nader’s Raiders, 286, 289–95, 302

  Nation, 207

  Nation, Carrie, 223

  National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), xxi, 135, 256–57, 262–64, 265, 272–75, 315, 332, 333, 341, 365, 386, 392

  National Chamber Foundation, 303–4

  National Chamber Litigation Center (NCLC), 322, 323

  National Environmental Policy Act (1970), 280

  National Football League (NFL), 296

  National Guard, US, 272

  nationalism, 43

  National Labor Relations Act (1935), 330

  Native Americans, xvii, 10, 13, 18, 22, 77, 131, 276

  Navy, US, 268

  Nazi Germany, 232–33, 249, 253

  Neagle, David, 137–38

  Near, Jay M., 241–42

  Near v. Minnesota, 241–42, 244

  neoclassical economics, 352

  Netherlands, 26

  Newburgh and New York Railway Co., 152

  New Deal, xx, 251, 265, 308, 393

  New England Council, 310

  New England Policy-Holders Committee, 211

  New Hampshire, 76, 77, 78–79, 80, 82, 83–86, 88, 124, 184

  New Hampshire Superior Court, 78–79

  New Jersey, 24, 124, 125, 168–69, 170, 184–85, 189, 207, 382–83

  New Mexico, 375, 389–94, 390

  New Mexico Constitution, 391

  Newmyer, R. Kent, 87

  New Orleans, 126–28, 129, 131–32

  New Orleans States, 236

  New Orleans Times-Picayune, 234–35, 236

  New Right, 281

  newspapers, xix, 234, 241–55, 256, 263, 264, 293, 310, 319–20, 360, 365, 392, 393, 402

  see also specific newspapers

  Newsweek, 280, 289

  New World, 6–10, 161

  New York, N.Y., xii, 56–57, 129, 161, 166, 175, 191–201, 203, 207, 210, 292–93, 372–75

  New York City Bar Association, 233

  New York City Hall, 191–92

  New York City Police Department, 374

  New York Custom House, 129

  New-York Daily Tribune, 118–19, 118, 120

  New Yorker, The, 255

  New York Herald, 208

  New York Life Insurance Co., 191–96, 202, 203, 204, 208–9, 226–27

  New York State, 24, 161, 169–70, 180–81, 209–10, 227

  New York State Assembly, 233

  New York State Bar Association, 169–70

  New York State Court of Appeals, 227

  New York State Legislature, 193, 209–10

  New York Stock Exchange, 56, 106

  New York Times, xxi, 176, 185, 188–89, 205, 247, 255, 265, 299

  New York Times Company, xxi, 255

  New York Times Magazine, 247

  New York World, 194–95

  Nicoll, DeLancey, 161–65, 162, 173–81, 185, 188, 203, 262

  Nicoll, Richard, 161

  “Ninth Circuit Law,” 153–54

  Nixon, E. D., 257

  Nixon, Richard M., 255, 277, 278, 281, 283, 296–97, 314, 316, 333–34

  North, Frederick (Lord North), 27

  North Carolina, 124, 125, 167

  Northern Securities Co., 172

  Northwestern National Life Insurance Company v. Riggs, 183�
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  NYNEX, 305

  oaths, 51, 131, 165

  Obama, Barack, xvi, 325, 344, 359, 360, 370–72, 378

  Obamacare, 378–82

  Obergefell v. Hodges, xxiv, 231

  Occupy Wall Street, xvi, 374–75, 394

  O’Connor, Sandra Day, 336, 337, 349–50

  “Octopus,” 111, 114, 119

  Ohio, 124, 125, 167, 168, 198

  Ohio River, 103–4

  oil industry, 167, 168, 171–72, 234–35, 244, 275–76, 308, 389–94

  Old South Meeting House, 30

  Olin, John M., 302

  Olivas, John, 389–94

  Oliver, Andrew, 29

  Olson, Theodore “Ted,” xxii–xxiii, 324–26, 335, 338–40, 343–44, 346–62, 370, 382

  Olympics (1936), 253

  opium, 27

  ordinances, 389–94

  Oregon, 124, 375

  organized crime, 257

  Orwell, George, 286

  “other people’s money” corruption, 205–6, 212, 215–17, 315–16

  Otto, William Tod, 149

  out-of-state citizens, 97–103, 257–58, 265–67

  Oxford University, 45

  Pacific Legal Foundation, 310

  Panama, 9

  panic of 1837, 100

  panic of 1893, 198

  pardons, 20

  Paris Commune, 146

  Parish, Ashley, 346

  Parker, Alton, 202–3, 209

  Parks, Rosa, 257

  Parliament, British, 15, 22–23, 25, 27–28, 29, 30–31, 43, 62, 63, 85–86, 87, 88

  “partisan realignment,” 326–27

  partnerships, 44–45, 49, 78, 178, 179–80, 181, 380–81

  Paspahegh Indians, 10

  pasteurization, 223

  Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (2010), 378–82

  Patterson, Albert, 257

  Patterson, John, 257–59, 258, 264, 265, 272

  Patterson v. Colorado, 239

  Paul v. Virginia, 145–46

  Peabody Energy, 347

  Peckham, Rufus Wheeler, Jr., 181–82, 182

  Pecos Wilderness, 389

  Pembina Consolidated Silver Mining Company v. Pennsylvania, 155, 401

  Pendleton Act (1883), 197–98

  Pennsylvania, 24, 53, 92–93, 99–100, 155, 172

  Pennsylvania, University of, Law School of, 318

  pensions, 206, 384–88

  Pentagon Papers, The, 255

  People’s Pleasure Park Co., 260–62, 275, 276

  People v. Gansley, 224

  per capita income, 349

  perjury, 203

  Perkins, George W., 191–96, 193, 202–4, 206, 208, 209, 217, 219, 226–28, 286

  Personal Liberty League, 224

  Peru, 7

  Petroleum Marketers Association of America, 347

  Phelps, Esmond, 248, 249

  Philadelphia, 52

  Philip Morris, 36, 279–83, 287–89, 321, 347

  Phillips, Carter, 322

  Phillips Petroleum, 333

 

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