A Republic, If You Can Keep It by Future of Freedom Foundation March 28, 2010 AT THE CLOSE OF THE CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION, a woman asked Benjamin Franklin what type of government the Constitution was bringing into existence. Franklin replied, A republic, if you can keep it. Regardless of ones judgment concerning the type of government that the Constitution brought into existence in 1787, no one can deny that it was truly the most unusual and radical in history. Consider: With the tragic exception of slavery, the United States was a society in which people could, by and large, engage in any occupation or economic enterprise without a government license, permit, or regulation. Where people could travel anywhere in the world without restriction (no passports) and trade with whomever they pleased without the permission of their government officials. Where people could accumulate ...
A Republic, If You Can Keep It by Future of Freedom Foundation April 25, 2010 AT THE CLOSE OF THE CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION, a woman asked Benjamin Franklin what type of government the Constitution was bringing into existence. Franklin replied, A republic, if you can keep it. Regardless of ones judgment concerning the type of government that the Constitution brought into existence in 1787, no one can deny that it was truly the most unusual and radical in history. Consider: With the tragic exception of slavery, the United States was a society in which people could, by and large, engage in any occupation or economic enterprise without a government license, permit, or regulation. Where people could travel anywhere in the world without restriction (no passports) and trade with whomever they pleased without the permission of their government officials. Where people could accumulate ...
Freedom Daily – 2001 by Future of Freedom Foundation April 25, 2010 January 2001 Lets Retire the Drug War by Jacob G. Hornberger Food, Education, and Health Care by Jacob G. Hornberger The Fundamental Rights of the European Union: Individual Rights or Welfare-State Privileges? Part 1 by Richard M. Ebleing Young People Arent Skeptical Enough by Sheldon Richman Clintons Kosovo Fraud by James Bovard The Second Amendment Protects an Individual Right by Benedict A. LaRosa Morals and the Welfare State, Part 4 by F.A. Harper Book Review Feeling Your Pain: The Explosion and Abuse of Government Power in the Clinton-Gore Years, by James Bovard reviewed by Richard M. Ebeling back to top February 2001 Abolish the Nonessentials by Jacob G. Hornberger The Fundamental Rights of the European Union: Individual Rights or Welfare-State Privileges? Part 2 by Richard M. Ebleing Election Nonsense by Sheldon Richman The IRS: ...
The Fall of Libertarianism or the Failure of Interventionism? A Reply to Francis Fukuyama by Future of Freedom Foundation March 24, 2010 FRANCIS FUKUYAMA gained international recognition in 1989 when he published an article in The National Interest entitled The End of Man. He offered a Hegelian conception of the evolution and direction of human history. In short, he argued that human society was following a dialectical trajectory of development that would end ...
The Fall of Libertarianism or the Failure of Interventionism? A Reply to Francis Fukuyama by Future of Freedom Foundation May 3, 2010 FRANCIS FUKUYAMA gained international recognition in 1989 when he published an article in The National Interest entitled The End of Man. He offered a Hegelian conception of the evolution and direction of human history. In short, he argued that human society was following a dialectical trajectory of development that would ...
Private: Freedom Daily – 2003 by Future of Freedom Foundation January 1, 2003 January 2003 Economic Liberty and the Constitution, Part 8 by Jacob G. Hornberger In Pursuit of Sustainable Development: Political Planning versus the Free Market by Richard M. Ebeling Arrogance is Humility by Sheldon Richman Foreign Dissent on Bush's Imperial Ambitions by James Bovard Hawks and the Free Market by Bart Frazier Guns and Privacy by Scott McPherson Socialism Lives in Public Schools by Thomas L. Johnson
Economic Liberty and the Constitution, Part 8 by Future of Freedom Foundation March 28, 2010 Part 7 Part 9 Table of Contents The tremendous legal battle between the advocates of economic liberty and free markets and the advocates of socialism and statism that took place in the U.S. Supreme Court in the 1930s should be placed within a historical context. Our American ancestors ...
Economic Liberty and the Constitution, Part 9 by Future of Freedom Foundation March 28, 2010 Part 8 Part 10 Table of Contents The ancient Chinese symbol for crisis is made up of two characters, one denoting danger and the other opportunity. The Great Depression was a perfect example of a crisis: Not only did the economic crisis of the 1930s present ...
Economic Liberty and the Constitution, Part 9 by Future of Freedom Foundation April 25, 2010 Part 8 Part 10 Table of Contents The ancient Chinese symbol for crisis is made up of two characters, one denoting danger and the other opportunity. The Great Depression was a perfect example of a crisis: Not only did the economic crisis of the 1930s present ...
The Greatest Ignorance of the Greatest Number by Future of Freedom Foundation March 27, 2010 The specter of an ignorant or indifferent populace has long haunted democracy. Montesquieu wrote in 1748, The tyranny of a principal in an oligarchy is not so dangerous to the public welfare as the apathy of a citizen in a democracy. James Madison warned, A popular Government, without popular information, or the means of acquiring it, is ...
The Greatest Ignorance of the Greatest Number by Future of Freedom Foundation April 25, 2010 The specter of an ignorant or indifferent populace has long haunted democracy. Montesquieu wrote in 1748, The tyranny of a principal in an oligarchy is not so dangerous to the public welfare as the apathy of a citizen in a democracy. James Madison warned, A popular Government, without popular information, or the means of acquiring it, is ...
An Empire for America by Future of Freedom Foundation April 2, 2010 Shortly before his death in 1902, the great classical-liberal social philosopher Herbert Spencer penned an essay entitled Imperialism and Slavery that was included in a collection of his writings under the titleFacts and Comments (1902). The theme of the essay was that, as Great Britain was proceeding to expand its empire around the world, it was not only enslaving ...
