Lochner v. New York · ¶27

In Patterson v. Kentucky, 97 U. S. 501, after referring to the general principle that rights given by the Constitution cannot be impaired by state legislation of any kind, this court said: “It [this court] has, nevertheless, with marked distinctness and uniformity, recognized the necessity, growing out of the fundamental conditions of civil society, of Upholding state police regulations which were enacted in good faith, and had appropriate and direct connection with that protection to life, health, and property which each State owes to her citizens.” So in Barbier v. Connolly, 113 U. S. 27: “But neither the [14th] Amendment — broad and comprehensive as it is— nor any other Amendment was.designed to interfere with the power of the State, sometimes termed its police power, to prescribe regulations to promote the health, peace, morals, education, and good order of the people.”

U. S. Reports, bound volume
U. S. Reports, volume 198, at 45 (Library of Congress) · transcription: Caselaw Access Project
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