Blunders of the Supreme Court of the United States, Part 4

Abstract:     
The fourth in a series on blunders made by the Supreme Court of the United States. In this article the case of Hague v. Committee for Industrial Organization et. al. (307 U.S. 496, 1939) is reviewed. The blunder made is that Article IV, Section 2, Clause 1 of the Constitution of the United States has only common privileges and immunities. It is shown that Article IV, Section 2, Clause 1 has both common privileges and immunities as well as fundamental privileges and immunities.

Number of Pages in PDF File: 8

Keywords: blunder, fundamental privileges and immunities, common privileges and immunities, Article IV Section 2 Clause 1, Section 1 of the Fourteenth Amendment, Corfield v. Coryell, Tennessee v. Claiborne, Ward v. Maryland, Paul v. Virginia, Slaughterhouse Cases, Slaughter-House Cases

JEL Classification: H10, H11, K19, M49

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