Tag: federalism

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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,...

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...

SAMUEL C. CASOLARI, CENTER FOR VISION & VALUES After losing New Hampshire, Florida, and Illinois, the presidential candidate limped along with declining support and amid...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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....

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...