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 Amendments 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.
Limited Government
Ave Atque Vale
By Charlotte Twight
This
article
appeared in
the Spring 2006 issue of The Independent Review.
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