In mid-2005, three pillars of liberty were destroyed, perhaps forever, when President George W. Bush signed into law the REAL ID Act and the U.S. Supreme Court effectively rewrote the Interstate Commerce Clause and the Fifth Amendment’s Takings Clause. Government decision makers could impose these changes on Americans only by using tactics that made a mockery of both constitutionally mandated procedure and consensual legislative deliberation.
Charlotte Twight is a Research Fellow at the Independent Institute and Professor of Economics at Boise State University.
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Fall 2017 Passing the Affordable Care Act: Transaction Costs, Legerdemain, Acquisition of Control
Winter 2015/16 Through the Mist: American Liberty and Political Economy, 2065
Fall 2015 Dodd–Frank: Accretion of Power, Illusion of Reform
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