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Is It the Same Thing in the 19th Century?
Akil: In the 19 thirties, there was a court that said, in the name of rights, we prohibit the government from regulating minimum wages and maximum hours. And now what ledo saying is, actually, it can. Akil: The only difference between what happened in the 19Thirties - which rights of property and contract were tossed overboard because they really weren't in the constitution - and what alito is proposing to day is tossing overboard reproductive rights. Is just what's being done right now, from rights restriction perspective, no different than what happened in 18th century.