Court upholds a minimum wage law for women and children in Washington State
-    the Constitution does not speak of freedom of contract. It speaks of liberty and prohibits the depravation of liberty without due process of law.
-    The legislature of the state was clearly entitled to consider the situation of women in employment, the fact that they are in the class receiving the least pay, that their bargaining power is relatively weak, and that they are the ready victims of those who would take advantage of their necessitous circumstances. The legislature was entitled to adopt measures to reduce the evils of the “sweating system” that exploits workers at wages so low as to be insufficient to meet the bare cost of living
-    The community may direct is law-making power to correct the abuse which springs from their selfish disregard of the public interest