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When Kentucky Outlawed Profit, Holmes Overruled Kentucky

Section 198 of the Kentucky Constitution of 1891:

It shall be the duty of the General Assembly from time to time, as necessity may require, to enact such laws as may be necessary to prevent all trusts, pools, combinations or other organizations, from combining to depreciate below its real value any article, or to enhance the cost of any article above its real value.

The Constitution of the Commonwealth of Kentucky. Adopted September 28, 1891. Frankfort, Ky.: E. Polk Johnson, Public Printer and Binder. 1892.

Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes:

In our opinion it cannot stand.

International Harvester Co. of America v. Kentucky, 234 U.S. 216, 223 (1914).