“The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.”
by Connor Boyack Yes, you read that right. The Constitution applies to terrorists. It also applies to stay-at-home moms, illegal immigrants, truck drivers, anti-government radicals, and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Put differently, the Constitution does not apply only to...
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...
This article was originally published on December 12, 2002. For more Harry Browne archives, visit www.harrybrowne.org Dec. 15 should be a national holiday. No, it’s not Earth Day, or Martin Luther King Day, or Flag Day, or Beat-Up-Some-Third-World-Country Day....
Editor’s Note: Bill of Rights Day is December 15th. But as Kevin Gutzman points out in this article, originally published December 14, 2009, it’s not a day of celebration. Instead, it should be a day of mourning for the death of decentralized self-government. In 2008,...
by Harry Browne Originally published on May 9, 2003 at HarryBrowne.org Senator Rick Santorum recently caused a brouhaha when, during an Associated Press interview, he defended laws against sodomy – saying that permitting sodomy is as good as saying polygamy,...