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Message: [QUOTE="TheFarmFan, post: 5265644, member: 9403"] What principle stops you from making this claim about literally any constitutional right you think should exist and that more than a few other people think should too? I have regularly practiced antitrust law, including in the House case, and I would just advise you that pretty much everyone in the field views this as controlled by the Sherman Act, which didn't exist for the first hundred years after our founding. Moreover, if anything, during the "Lochner era" in the 20s and early 30s, many thought antitrust prohibitions were themselves violations of the constitutional right to contract, so historically, at least, there's been more momentum to think the constitution prohibits antitrust restrictions than requires them. [/QUOTE]