The right to earn an honest living receives less judicial protection than the right to receive a welfare check; before the New Deal, courts invoking the 14th Amendment aggressively struck down arbitrary impediments to economic liberty, but afterward the Court abandoned searching review and adopted an 'anything-goes' approach.

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Clint Bolick

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the right to earn an honest living receives less judicial protection than the right to receive a welfare check

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Clint Bolick Defends Judicial Activism 10/31/2006EconTalk
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