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Fighting Foreclosure: The Blaisdell Case, the Contract Clause, and the Great Depression (Landmark Law Cases and American Society) (Landmark Law Cases & American Society)
Derek S. Hoff John A. Fliter
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Description for Fighting Foreclosure: The Blaisdell Case, the Contract Clause, and the Great Depression (Landmark Law Cases and American Society) (Landmark Law Cases & American Society)
Paperback. The first book-length study of the landmark 1934 Supreme Court decision that validated efforts by states to offer legislative relief to Depression-era citizens struggling to keep their farms and homes. The close 5-4 decision remains a touchstone for debates over the constitutionality (and benefits) of state intervention to the economy. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; HBLW; LND. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 295.
In the depths of the Great Depression, when foreclosure rates skyrocketed across the United States, more than two dozen states passed mortgage-extension or -adjustment laws to help farmers and homeowners keep their properties. One such statute in Minnesota led to the most important property law case of its time and still casts a long shadow upon constitutional debates and our own era’s severe economic downturn.
Fighting Foreclosure marks the first book-length study of the landmark 1934 Supreme Court decision in Home Building and Loan Association v. Blaisdell, which, by a 5–4 vote, upheld the Minnesota Mortgage Moratorium ... Read more
In the depths of the Great Depression, when foreclosure rates skyrocketed across the United States, more than two dozen states passed mortgage-extension or -adjustment laws to help farmers and homeowners keep their properties. One such statute in Minnesota led to the most important property law case of its time and still casts a long shadow upon constitutional debates and our own era’s severe economic downturn.
Fighting Foreclosure marks the first book-length study of the landmark 1934 Supreme Court decision in Home Building and Loan Association v. Blaisdell, which, by a 5–4 vote, upheld the Minnesota Mortgage Moratorium ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Univ Pr of Kansas
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
Kansas, United States
ISBN
9780700618729
SKU
V9780700618729
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About Derek S. Hoff John A. Fliter
JOHN A. FLITER AND DEREK S. HOFF are associate professors at Kansas State University in political science and history, respectively. Fliter is author of Prisoners’ Rights: The Supreme Court and Evolving Standards of Decency; Hoff is author of The State and the Stork: The Population Debate and Policy Making in U.S. History.
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