Johnson v. Richardson’s Empirical Analysis

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1. “To engraft upon the Social Security system a concept, of “accrued property rights” would deprive it of the flexibility and boldness in adjustment to ever-changing conditions which it demands. sfc :fi % We must conclude that a person covered by the Act has not such a right in benefit payments as would make every defeasance of “accrued” interests violative of the Due Process Clause of the Fifth Amendment. “Whether wisdom or unwisdom resides in the scheme of benefits set forth in Title II, it is not for us to say. The answer to such inquiries must come from Congress, not the courts. Our concern here, as often, is with power, not with wisdom.” Particularly when we deal with a withholding of a noncontractual benefit under a social welfare program such as this, we must recognize that the Due Process Clause can be thought to interpose a bar only if the statute manifests a patently arbitrary classification, utterly lacking in rational justification.”

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   e.g. Mitchell v. Harris