All Posts Tagged With: "Roger Pilon"
The Rule of Law in the Wake of Clinton edited by Roger Pilon
Cato Institute • 2000 • 240 pages • $9.95 paperback The oath of office obligates the president of the United States to preserve and defend the Constitution, and thus the central function of his job amounts to maintaining the rule of law. The president is not supposed to govern the nation, but the temptation to [...]
1Apr2001 | George C. Leef | 0 comments | ContinuedStates’ Rights and Freedom
To the Editor: Gene Healy represents a disturbing trend among some libertarians to nostalgically recall the good old days when states were bastions of freedom. Those days never existed; and as James Madison depicts them in Federalist No. 10, even at the founding they were such bastions of tyranny that a stronger national government was [...]
1Feb2000 | FEE Admin | 3 comments | ContinuedStates’ Rights Revisited
Lamenting the Supreme Court’s recent batch of pro-federalism decisions, the New York Times termed the Court’s newfound affinity for states’ rights “Supreme mischief,” “deeply disturbing” to right-thinkers everywhere. One expects such talk from dedicated cheerleaders for centralized power. What’s more disturbing, however, is the extent to which the Times’s perspective has gained credence among advocates [...]
1Dec1999 | Gene Healy | 7 comments | ContinuedChina’s Spontaneous Order
James Dorn is vice president for academic affairs at the Cato Institute and professor of economics at Towson University. He is the editor of China in the New Millennium: Market Reforms and Social Development (Cato Institute, 1998). A shorter version of this article appeared in the Journal of Commerce. This year marks the 50th anniversary [...]
1Apr1999 | James A. Dorn | 1 comment | Continued-
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