Lochnerism
n.— «American legal theory regularly congratulates itself on its rejection of “Lochnerism” the fetishistic acceptance and constitutional entrenchment of a particular private rights-system against all efforts to redistribute rights and resources and to regulate economic activity.» —“Legal Analysis as Institutional Imagination” by Roberto Mangabeira Unger Modern Law Review Jan. 1, 1996. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
Further reading
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