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The Unitary Executive: Presidential Power from Washington to Bush
Steven G. Calabresi and Christopher S. Yoo count as founding fathers of the much-debated unitary executive theory (UET), which they named in 1992. In this large book they argue that every American president has subscribed to the theory, and that along with constitutional text and structure, this continuous presidential practice makes the law.
Briefly, UET asserts [...]
The Founders, the Constitution, and the Historians
How could Charles Beard have erred so badly in arguing that the Constitution was written mainly to serve the signers’ economic interests? In part Beard missed the mark because he was trying to hit something else—a Progressive agenda for reform, the excuse to transfer wealth from the haves to the have-nots. If the Founders were merely protecting their economic interests, Beard and his progressive friends were justified in supporting the redistribution of wealth.
11Jun2009 | Burton W. Folsom Jr. | 0 comments | ContinuedSelling History with Dolls
Contributing Editor Andrew Morriss is Galen J. Roush Professor of Business Law and Regulation at Case Western Reserve University School of Law, and shares his home with several American Girl dolls.
Many people think that markets can’t provide culture. History, for example, has to be supported through government-funded schools, endowments, and grants. In this view, markets [...]
What’s Wrong with How We Teach Economics
Brandon Crocker is a real estate executive in San Diego.
The decline in the core curricula of universities and the growing “cultural illiteracy” of high school and college graduates have been lamented in many books and articles. As universities have redesigned their curricula to fit the demands of political correctness and the particular interests of their [...]
Experiment in Liberty by William Moore Gray III
Sunflower University Press • 1998 • 388 pages • $34.95
Experiment in Liberty is an experiment by a certified public accountant in writing a history of the United States. It is sometimes a flawed experiment and often idiosyncratic in organization; but this book is nonetheless more reliable than most texts now being used in high-school and [...]
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The End of Prosperity: How Higher Taxes Will Doom the Economy–If We Let it Happen
By Arthur B. Laffer, Stephen Moore, and Peter J. Tanous
