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We know many things about habeas corpus. We know that it goes back to the Magna Carta and that the U.S. Constitution affirmed this bulwark of Anglo-American liberty. We know that habeas prohibits jailing people without cause, and that it remained healthy throughout...
This is from Ludwig von Mises’s economic masterpiece, Human Action, written sixty years ago in 1949: The problems involved in direct government interference with consumption. . . concern the fundamental issues of human life and social organization. If it is true...