All Posts Tagged With: "constitution"
TGIF: The Rule of Lore
“This is a nation of laws not of men (and women).” We will be hearing a lot about that in the coming weeks. The rest of TGIF, “The Rule of Lore,” is here.
29May2009 | Sheldon Richman | 0 comments | ContinuedLost Articles
The Constitution says that to be elected to the U.S. Senate, a person has to be 30 or older, a citizen for at least nine years, and a resident of the state from which the candidate is elected. Alas, it says nothing about knowing American history. Good thing for Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.). He’d have [...]
26Jan2007 | Sheldon Richman | 1 comment | ContinuedThe European Constitution: A Requiem?
At the end of last year, the much heralded and grandiose scheme for a European constitution—an impenetrable 330-page document—came to a temporary end when Poland (admitted to European Union last summer) and Spain combined to reject a feature proposed by the European Convention even before detailed provisions of the document could be debated. M. Valéry [...]
1Oct2004 | Norman Barry | 0 comments | ContinuedProperty and Freedom
Bernard Siegan, professor of law at the University of San Diego, has been a pioneer in the analysis of government land-use controls. His 1972 book, Land Use Without Zoning, is a classic. If you want to rock a zoning advocate back on his heels, reading that book is the best preparation. The fact that Siegan [...]
1Aug1998 | George C. Leef | 1 comment | 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 [...]
1Aug1956 | 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] [...]
1Jun1956 | 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 [...]
1Apr1956 | David Lawrence | 0 comments | ContinuedTwo 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 [...]
1Sep1955 | James M. Rogers | 0 comments | Continued-
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