Mrs. Dawes APUSH: E Period
  • Home
  • Presidents
    • George Washington
    • John Adams
    • Thomas Jefferson
    • James Madison
    • James Monroe
    • John Quincy Adams
    • Andrew Jackson
    • Martin Van Buren
    • William Henry Harrison
    • John Tyler
    • James K. Polk
    • Zachary Taylor
    • Millard Fillmore
    • Franklin Pierce
    • James Buchanan
    • Abraham Lincoln
    • Andrew Johnson
    • Ulysses S. Grant
    • Rutherford B. Hayes
    • James Garfield
    • Chester A. Arthur
    • Grover Cleveland
    • Benjamin Harrison
    • Grover Cleveland
    • William McKinley
    • Theodore Roosevelt
    • William Howard Taft
    • Woodrow Wilson
    • Warren G. Harding
    • Calvin Coolidge
    • Herbert Hoover
    • Franklin D. Roosevelt
    • Harry S. Truman
    • Dwight D. Eisenhower
    • John F. Kennedy
    • Lyndon B. Johnson
    • Richard M. Nixon
    • Gerald R. Ford
    • James (Jimmy) Carter
    • Ronald Reagan
    • George H. W. Bush
    • William (Bill) J. Clinton
    • George W. Bush
    • Barack Obama
  • Supreme Court Cases
    • Marbury v. Madison
    • Fletcher v Peck
    • Dartmouth College v. Woodward
    • McCulloch v. Maryland
    • Cohens v. Virginia
    • Gibbons v. Ogden
    • Johnson v. McIntosh
    • Worcester v. Georgia
    • Charles River Bridge v. Warren Bridge
    • Dred Scott v. Sanford
    • Munn v. Illinois
    • Wabash, St. Louis & Pacific Railroad Co. v. Illinois
    • Plessy V. Ferguson
    • Insular Cases
    • Schenck v. U.S.
    • Abrams v. U.S.
    • Bailey v. Drexel Furniture
    • Adkins v. Children's Hospital
    • Korematsu v. US
    • Dennis et. al. v. US
    • Baker v. Carr
    • Gideon v. Wainwright
    • Griswold v. CT
    • Miranda. v. AZ
  • Units
    • Unit 1: Colonization and Exploration through the Colonial Period
    • Unit 2: The Revolutionary Period
    • Unit 3: The Early National Period
    • Unit 4: The Age of Jefferson
    • Unit 5: Sectionalism and Manifest Destiny (Antebellum- The Age of Expansion)
    • Unit 6: Civil War and Reconstruction
    • Unit 7: Industrialization and Westward Expansion
    • Unit 8: America and Progressivism (Imperialism, Populism, progressivism, WWI and its aftermath)
    • Unit 9: The 1920s and 1930s
    • Unit 10: WWII and the Cold War
    • Unit 11: Recent America (Late 20th Century- 1960 to Present)
  • Personal Portfolio
    • Reconstruction: Problems and Solutions
    • Picturing Progressive America
    • Constitutional Ammendments

Munn vS. Illinois 1877

Background: Munn, a Chicago warehouse firm partner, was found guilty of violating a state law that provided for the fixing of maximum charges for storing grain. He was in violation of the Granger Laws of the time which were designed to channel farm protests against economic abuses. Munn, however, claimed the fixing of maximum storage rates was taking property without due process.

Issue: Was the fixing of maximum rates considered taking property without due process, and consequently in violation of the property laws of the 14th amendment?

Ruling/Impact: The Supreme Court ruled in favor of the Granger Laws, which established the constitutional principle of public regulation of private businesses involved in serving the public interest. The ruling was reminiscent of the Charles River Bridge v. Warren Bridge Case in which the courts ruled in favor of the public interest as well.

Powered by Create your own unique website with customizable templates.