All Posts Tagged With: "constitution"
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 Great Writ Then and Now
The Great Writ Then and Now
by Wendy McElroy
Wendy McElroy (wendy@wendymcelroy.com) is an author, the editor of ifeminists.com, and a research fellow for the Independent Institute in Oakland, California.
Habeas corpus is a rarely invoked legal writ, or document, widely considered to be the cornerstone of individual liberty. Also known as The Great Writ, habeas corpus (ad [...]
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 | ContinuedA Reviewers Notebook
The late Charles A. Beard was a complex and often contradictory character. While he did not invent the “economic interpretation” of history, he gave it its first great impetus in America by writing his An Economic Interpretation of the Constitution of the United States. That was back in 1913, the lyric year when social change [...]
21Nov2009 | John Chamberlain | 0 comments | ContinuedDespotismDemocratic Nations
In his foreword to the 1956 paperbacked edition of The Road to Serfdom (University of Chicago Press) Friedrich A. Hayek quotes briefly from Democracy in America, Part II, Book IV, Chapter VI, and suggests that the chapter be read “in order to realize with what acute insight De Tocqueville was able to foresee [in 1835] [...]
21Nov2009 | Alexis De Tocqueville | 0 comments | ContinuedA Call to Liberalism
Mr. David Lawrence is Editor of U. S. News & World Report.
Liberalism has been undergoing a steady erosion. The so-called “liberalism” of today is a philosophy of coercionism in conflict with the spirit and letter of the Constitution. It is not true liberalism.
Time was when liberalism meant freedom from excessive government—freedom from encroachment [...]
Two Ways To Slavery
James M. Rogers, assistant to the president of Ingersoll Milling Machine Company, was formerly a member of the staff of the Foundation for Economic Education.
When delegating power and authority to “good” men, remember that the power is apt to be inherited by “bad” men
In the Old Testament, there are two thought-provoking stories of [...]
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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
