ful employment previously adopted,
does deprive them of liberty as well as property, without due process of
law."--Slaughter-House Cases, 16 Wall. 36, 116, 122 (Justice Bradley).

[74] 143 U.S. 517, 551.

[75] _See_ Fletcher _v._ Peck, 6 Cr. 87, 128 (1810).

[76] 94 U.S. 113, 123, 132 (1877).

[77] Ibid. 132.

[78] 123 U.S. 623 (1887).

[79] Ibid. 662.--"We cannot shut out of view the fact, within the
knowledge of all, that the public health, the public morals, and the
public safety, may be endangered by the general use of intoxicating
drinks; nor the fact, * * *, that * * * pauperism, and crime * * * are,
in some degree, at least, traceable to this evil."

[80] 127 U.S. 678 (1888).

[81] Ibid. 685.

[82] 169 U.S. 366 (1898).

[83] 198 U.S. 45 (1905).

[84] 127 U.S. 678 (1888).

[85] 123 U.S. 623 (1887).

[86] 169 U.S. 366, 398.

[87] 198 U.S. 45, 58-59 (1905).

[88] 198 U.S. 45, 71-74.

[89] 198 U.S. 45, 75-76.

[90] 243 U.S. 426 (1917.)

[91] 208 U.S. 412 (1908).

[92] Ibid.

[93] Adkins _v._ Children's Hospital, 261 U.S. 525 (1923); Stettler _v._
O'Hara, 243 U.S. 629 (1917); Morehead _v._ New York ex rel. Tipaldo, 298
U.S. 587 (1936); overruled by West Coast Hotel Co. _v._ Parrish, 300
U.S. 379 (1937).

[94] West Coast Hotel Co. _v._ Parrish, 300 U.S. 379 (1937). Thus the
National Labor Relations Act was declared not to "interfere with the
normal exercise of the right of the employer to select its employees or
to discharge them." However, restraint of the employer for the purpose
of preventing an unjust interference with the correlative right of his
employees to organize was declared not to be arbitrary.--National Labor
Relations Board _v._ Jones & Laughlin, 301 U.S. 1, 44, 45-46 (1937).

[95] _See_ especially Howard Jay Graham, "The 'Conspiracy Theory' of the
Fourteenth Amendment", _Selected Essays on Constitutional Law_, I,
236-267 (1938).

[96] 94 U.S. 113.--In a case arising under the Fifth Amendment, decided
almost at the same time, the Court explicitly declared the United States
"equally with the States * * * are prohibited from depriving persons or
corporations of property without due process of law." Sinking Fund
Cases, 99 U.S. 700, 718-719 (1878).

[97] Smyth _v._ Ames, 169 U.S. 466, 522, 526 (1898); Kentucky Finance
Corp. _v._ Paramount Auto Exch. Corp., 262 U.S. 544, 550 (1923); Liggett
(Louis K.) Co. _v._ Baldridge, 278 U.S. 105 (1928).

[98] Northwestern Nat. L. Ins. C