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Complexity in State Government
CHRIS EDWARDS, CATO INSTITUTE
One of the factors undermining efficiency and performance in American government is the rising complexity of laws, regulations, programs, and bureaucratic...
HHS Moves To Lift LGBT‐Bias Funding Strings
WALTER OLSON, CATO INSTITUTE
On Friday, the Department of Health and Human Services proposed to rescind some regulations issued in the final days of the Obama administration...
Federalism Wins Supreme Court Jackpot
ILYA SHAPIRO, CATO INSTITUTE
The smart money was always on the Supreme Court to make the kind of ruling it did today, strike down a federal law...
Taking On California’s Lawless Agenda
HARRY G. HUTCHISON, ACLJ
The long-simmering battle between the federal government and the state of California’s lawless agenda has erupted as part of escalating conflict...
Yes, Virginia, Federalism Applies to Marijuana Reform
BY BOB BARR
There is a simple, universal elegance to the conservative concept of federalism. When confronted with a governing decision not explicitly addressed in...
James Madison: Federal Powers Limited, State Powers Indefinite
FOUNDERS CORNER: LIMITED GOVERNMENT AND FEDERALISM
The powers delegated by the proposed Constitution to the federal government, are few and defined. Those which are to...
Welcome to the Brave New World Devised by SCOTUS
BY MARK HENDRICKSON
Exclusive to The Moral Liberal
In a case of painfully ironic timing, between the 800th anniversary of Magna Carta on June 15 and...
Bureaucracy and the Tyranny of Minority Power
American Minute with Bill Federer
President Calvin Coolidge warned in a speech given MAY 15, 1926, at the College of William and Mary, in Williamsburg,...
How the Supreme Court Should Decide The Same-Sex Union Cases
JOHN A. SPARKS, CENTER FOR VISION AND VALUES
The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to hear four cases involving the issue of same-sex unions. These...
2016: Super Primary? A Bad Idea
SAMUEL C. CASOLARI, CENTER FOR VISION & VALUES
After losing New Hampshire, Florida, and Illinois, the presidential candidate limped along with declining support and amid...
FEMA Reform Needed: Congress Must Act
DAVID INSERRA, HERITAGE FOUNDATION
Several weeks ago, President Barack Obama announced that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) would provide work authorization and protection from...
Reauthorizing No Child Left Behind
Four Recommendations to Advance Federalism In Education
LINDSEY BURKE, HERITAGE FOUNDATION
In early 2015, Congress is likely to consider reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education...
Conflict Between the Circuits on Gay Marriage
JOHN A. SPARKS, CENTER FOR VISION AND VALUES
A month ago, the U.S. Supreme Court refused to hear a collection of cases which raised the...
Three Tests for Proposed Federal Programs: Ezra Taft Benson
CALLED UNTO LIBERTY, 20TH CENTURY SERMONS
April 1952
With you, I love this great land in which we live. I pray for the chief executive and...
Does the Treaty Power Threaten Our System of Limited Government?
THE HONORABLE TED CRUZ, HERITAGE FOUNDATION
Abstract
American sovereignty and the structural constraints present in the Constitution that protect our liberty are both implicated in Bond v....
Federalist Papers No. 38, James Madison
FOUNDERS CORNER, MAJOR WORKS
Saturday, January 12, 1788
Concerning the Difficulties of the Convention in Devising a Proper Form of Government and the Incoherence of the...
Fifty Years Ago Yesterday …
WALTER OLSON, CATO INSTITUTE
…the U.S. Supreme Court handed down what was to become one of its most celebrated tort reform decisions. A profitable national manufacturer...
Federalist Papers No. 32, Alexander Hamilton
FOUNDERS CORNER LIBRARY: MAJOR WORKS
Federalist 32, by Alexander Hamilton
02 January 1788
Concerning the General Power of Taxation (continued)
ALTHOUGH I am of opinion that...
Competitive Federalism Forces States to Improve
RICH TUCKER, HERITAGE FOUNDATION
Where you live matters—in more than one way. As Time magazine reports, some states are known for being laid back, while...
A Law for Governments, by Clarence B. Carson
CLARENCE B. CARSON, IDEAS ON LIBERTY
According to the lore of our time, business monopolies are highly dangerous—so dangerous in their threat to the commonweal...