... from the surrounding areas many slaughterhouses, which often flowed into the city via the Mississippi River. After some local cases the state of Louisiana passed an act that centralized all slaughterhouse operations to one point inside the city. The result of this act was essentially a government created monopoly on the city's slaughterhouses. The plaintiffs in the suits argued that "a monopoly in ... ...

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... amendment was ratified on July 28, 1868. Southern states were required to ratify it in order to be readmitted into the Union However, the Supreme Court's ruling in the 1873 Slaughterhouse cases diluted the amendment so much that all federal control over state police powers was virtually eliminated . The Fourteenth Amendment was also very important much later on, in the 1950s ... ...

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