Cato Handbook on PolicyDetails how legislators can return the federal goverment to the size and scope envisioned by the Founding Fathers. |
Contents
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Medicare and Medicaid | 85 |
The Federal Budget | 97 |
Health and Safety | 365 |
Transportation | 375 |
Antitrust | 385 |
Food and Drug Administration | 393 |
Telecommunications Broadband and Media Polity | 399 |
The Limits of Monetary Policy | 417 |
Major Policy Lessons from the Corporate Scandals | 427 |
Electricity Policy | 435 |
Starving the Beast Will Not Work | 113 |
Federal Tax Reform | 117 |
Fiscal Federalism | 131 |
International Tax Competition | 141 |
The Delegation of Legislative Powers | 151 |
Term Limits | 161 |
Campaign Finance | 171 |
Reclaiming the War Power | 181 |
Tort and Class Action Reform | 189 |
The Patriot Act | 199 |
Militarization of the Home Front | 205 |
Regulation of Electronic Speech and Commerce | 213 |
Property Rights and Regulatory Takings | 225 |
Tobacco and the Rule of Law | 243 |
The War on Drugs | 253 |
Restoring the Right to Bear Arms | 261 |
The Nanny State | 269 |
National ID Cards | 275 |
US Department of Education | 283 |
Higher Education | 291 |
Improving K12 Education | 299 |
Agricultural Policy | 311 |
Cultural Agencies | 317 |
Privatization | 325 |
Corporate Welfare | 333 |
State Fiscal Policy | 341 |
Federal Highway Programs | 353 |
Energy Policy | 445 |
Pollution Polity | 457 |
Public Lands Policy | 469 |
Global Warming and Climate Change | 479 |
Dismantling Al Qaeda | 493 |
Homeland Security | 501 |
The Defense Budget | 511 |
Strategic Nuclear Forces and Missile Defense | 523 |
Transatlantic Relations | 531 |
Nuclear Proliferation and the Terrorist Threat | 539 |
Strengthening the AllVolunteer Military | 551 |
Toward a Sensible US Policy in the Middle East | 561 |
Iraq and the Persian Gulf Getting Out Staying Engaged | 571 |
East Asian Defense Commitments | 579 |
Relations with South and Central Asia | 589 |
The International War on Drugs | 599 |
Relations with China | 607 |
Relations with Russia | 617 |
Relations with Cuba | 627 |
Trade | 639 |
Immigration | 649 |
International Financial Crises and the IMF | 661 |
US Policy toward Latin America | 671 |
Foreign Aid and Economic Development | 679 |
US Policy toward SubSaharan Africa | 693 |
Contributors | 701 |
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Page 17 - power: It may be a reflection on human nature that such devices should be necessary to control the abuses of government. But what is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature? If men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls
Page 17 - But what is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature? If men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls would be necessary. In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in this: you must first enable the government to
Page 10 - I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience. I know of no way of judging the future but by the past.
Page 12 - when an act of Parliament is against common right and reason, or repugnant, or impossible to be performed, the common law will controul it, and adjudge such Act to be void. The
Page 18 - oblige it to control itself. A dependence on the people is, no doubt, the primary control on the government; but experience has taught mankind the necessity of auxiliary precautions. What