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18. Supra note 13 at 241.
19. Ibid.
20. “When Mass Killers Meet Armed Resistance,” Freestudentsblogspot.com, April 18, 2007, http://freestudents.blogspot.com/2007/04/when-mass-killers-meet-armed-resistance.html.
21. Massad Ayoob, “Meet Otis McDonald,” Backwoods Home Magazine, March 17, 2010, http://backwoodshome.com/blogs/MassadAyoob/2010/03/17/meet-otis-mcdonald/.
22. Ibid.
23. Supra note 2 at 15.
24. Ibid., 43.
Chapter 9
1. Joseph R. Strayer, On the Medieval Origins of the Modern State (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1973), 18.
2. 4 Parl. Hist. Eng. 1774 (1700).
3. “Seditious Libel,” The Free Dictionary, http://legal-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/Seditious+Libel.
4. 10 H.C. Jour. 1688–93, at 1 (1803), given at the Court in the Hague, October 10, 1688.
5. Stephen A. Higginson, “A Short History of the Right to Petition Government for Redress of Grievances,” 96 Yale L.J. 142, 153 (1986).
6. Ibid., 149.
7. “A Petition Clause Analysis of Suits Against the Government: Implications for Rule 11 Sanctions,” 106 Harv. L. Rev. 1111, 1115 (1993).
8. Commonwealth v. Beaumarchais, 7 Va. 122 (1801) (opinion of Edmunton, C.J.), emphasis added.
9. Bi-Metallic Investment Co. v. State Board of Equalization, 239 U.S. 441 (1915).
10. W. Channing, Remarks on the Slavery Question, in a Letter to Jonathan Phillips, Esq. (Boston: J. Munroe, 1839), 15, 17.
11. Supra note 5 at 158.
12. www.mlkonline.net/dream.html.
Chapter 10
1. This anecdote is based on Robert B. Stinnett, Day of Deceit: The Truth About FDR and Pearl Harbor (New York: Free Press, 2000).
2. “The McCollum Memo,” Whatreallyhappened.com, October 7, 1940, http://whatreallyhappened.com/WRHARTICLES/McCollum/index.html.
3. Laurence M. Vance, “Rethinking the Good War,” Lewrockwell.com, 2009, http://www.lwerockwell.com/vance/vance181.html.
4. Ibid.
5. Bettina Bien Greaves, “Japan’s Gift to FDR,” Lewrockwell.com, June 29, 2010, http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig11greaves1.1.1.html.
6. Anne Leland and Mari-Jana Oboroceanu, American War and Military Operations Casualties: Lists and Statistics, Congressional Research Service, February 26, 2010, http://fpc.state.gov/documents/organization/139347.pdf.
7. Robert Higgs, Resurgence of the Warfare State: The Crisis Since 9/11 (Oakland, CA: Independent Institute, 2005). Much of the content for this chapter is inspired by this book, which is both brilliant and provocative in its exploration of the 9/11 crisis.
8. Ibid., 24.
9. Robert Higgs, “What’s So Special About Those Killed by Hijackers on September 11, 2001?” Lewrockwell.com, September 13, 2003, http://www.lewrockwell.com/higgs/higgs21.html.
10. Supra note 7 at 67.
11. Robert Higgs, “If We’re Really in Danger, Why Doesn’t the Government Act as If We’re in Danger?” Independent Institute, October 28, 2002, http://www.independent.org/newsroom/article.asp?id=114.
12. Ibid.
13. Supra note 7.
14. Ibid., 24.
15. Ibid., 43.
16. Backgrounder: Soldiers at War, PBS, October 16, 2008, http://www.pbs.org/pov/soldiersofconscience/special_background.php. (Web site provides additional data regarding conscientious objectors.)
17. Supra note 9 at 12.
18. William H. Rehnquist, All the Laws but One: Civil Liberties in Wartime (New York: Knopf, 1998), 192.
19. Supra note 7 at 11.
20. Ibid., 10.
21. Ibid.
22. Ibid., 25.
23. Ibid., 4.
24. Ibid., 96.
25. Ibid., 61.
26. Ibid., 63.
27. Ibid., 59.
28. Robert Higgs, “Wartime Prosperity? A Reassessment of the U.S. Economy in the 1940s,” Independent Institute, March 1, 1992, http://www.independent.org/newsroom/article.asp?id=138.
29. Ibid.
30. Supra note 7 at 79.
31. Ibid.
32. Supra note 9.
33. Ibid., 145.
34. Ibid., 223.
Chapter 11
1. James Madison, Notes of Debates, 336–37 (statement of J. Wilson).
2. James Madison, speech before the U.S. House of Representatives, June 8, 1789.
3. Trial Record from Zenger’s A Brief Narrative of the Case and Trial of John Peter Zenger (1736), http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/zenger/zengerrecord.html.
4. Ibid.
5. Burton Alva Konkle, The Life of Andrew Hamilton, 1676–1741: “The Day-Star of the American Revolution” (Philadelphia: National Publishing Co., 1941), 104.
6. For a further discussion of this issue, see Andrew Bacevich, The Limits of Power: The End of American Exceptionalism (New York: Metropolitan Books, 2008).
Chapter 12
1. Murray N. Rothbard, The Case Against the Fed (Auburn, AL: Ludwig von Mises Institute, 1994).
2. http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quotes_by/andrew+jackson.
3. Ludwig von Mises, Theory of Money and Credit (1912); for a more recent edition, see the 2009 edition (Orlando: Signalman Publishers). Mises explained monetary and banking theory by applying the marginal utility principle to the value of money and then proposing a new theory of industrial fluctuations. Hayek used this as a foundation to build a new theory of the business cycle, which is what later became known as the “Austrian Business Cycle Theory.” See Friedrich Hayek, Prices and Production (London: G. Routledge, 1931) and Friedrich Hayek, The Pure Theory of Capital (London: Macmillan, 1941).
4. For a complete account of the formation of the Federal Reserve System, the following books are highly suggested: Ron Paul’s End the Fed (New York: Grand Central Publishing, 2009); Murray N. Rothbard’s The Case Against the Fed, supra note 1; and G. Edward Griffin’s The Creature from Jekyll Island (Appleton, WI: American Opinion,1994).
5. Supra note 1.
6. Ron Paul, End the Fed.
7. Executive Order 6102 was an Executive Order signed on April 5, 1933, by U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt “forbidding the Hoarding of Gold Coin, Gold Bullion, and Gold Certificates” by U.S. citizens.
8. Mike Hewitt, “Ben’s Helicopters Are Here!” DollarDaze, December 1, 2008, http://dollardaze.org/blog/?post_id=00523.
Chapter 13
1. Murray N. Rothbard, “The Myth of Neutral Taxation,” Lewrockwell.com, http://www.lewrockwell.com/rothbard/rothbard36.html.
Chapter 14
1. Joel Feinberg, The Moral Limits of the Criminal Law (Oxford, England: Oxford University Press, 1984). My former professor and great philosopher, Joel Feinberg, inspired this chapter. His four-volume treatise on the moral limits of the criminal code provides great insight as to how the government criminalizes acts which cause no harm. Specifically, direct credit must be given for the bus concept, or as I refer to it, “Feinberg’s bus.” While our views diverge at many points, Feinberg’s treatise is a must read for anyone interested in philosophical views of the criminal law in a free society.
2. John Baker, “Revisiting the Explosive Growth of Federal Crimes,” Heritage Foundation, June 16, 2008, http://www.heritage.org/Research/Reports/2008/06/Revisiting-the-Explosive-Growth-of-Federal-Crimes.
3. Ibid.
4. Bureau of Justice Statistics, Key Facts at a Glance: Direct Expenditures by Criminal Justice Function, 1982–2006, http://bjs.ojp.usdoj.gov/content/glance/tables/exptyptab.cfm.
5. http:www.lewrockwell.com/vance/vance204html.
6. Francie Grace, “Foie Gras Banned in Chicago,” CBS News, April 27, 2006, http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/04/27/national/main1550028.shtml.
7. Glenn Blain et al., “Gov. Paterson Pardons Army Veteran Osvaldo Hernandez of Felony that Blocked Him from Joining NYPD,” New York Daily News, December 29, 2009.
8. U.S. National Debt Clock, http://www.brillig.com/
debt_clock/ (accessed August 4, 2010).
9. Cohen v. California, 403 U.S. 15 (1971).
10. Kentucky Resolutions, adopted November 10, 1798.
11. 545 U.S. at 45.
12. Michael S. Moore, Law and Psychiatry: Rethinking the Relationship (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1984).
Chapter 15
1. Declaration of Independence, para. 2, 1776.
2. Ibid.
3. Source not known.
4. Declaration of Independence, para. 2, 1776.
5. Letter of Thomas Jefferson to William Stephens Smith, 1787.
Index
A
abolitionist movement, 152
abortion, xxxiii
acts, vs. laws, xviii, xxvii
Adams, John, 1, 14, 41
Adams, John Quincy, 175
Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938, 30
airlines, armed pilots or passengers, 132–133
airport security, 75–76
scanner machines, 68
Akhtiar, Mohammed, 198
Aldrich, Nelson W., 212
Alien and Sedition Acts of 1798, 41
Alito, Samuel, 135–136
American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, 229
American Revolutionary War, xxix, 1–2
Appalachian School of Law (Grundy, Virginia), 133
Arizona immigration law, 189–190, 191–192
Augustine (saint), xvi, 150
Austrian Business Cycle Theory (ABCT), 207, 214
B
Baird, Charles, 65
bank run, 204, 211, 212
banks, 8, 204–206
Barnett, Randy, xxii, xxvii, xxxii, 70–71
barter trade method, 202
Bastiat, Frédéric, 2–3, 225
Becker, Gary, 113
Bierfeldt, Steve, 67–68
The Big Short (Lewis), 32
bin Laden, Osama, 262
Black Codes after Civil War, 125
Blackstone, William, 182–183, 195, 198
Bloomberg, Michael, 84, 106
body ownership, 103–119
Bolt, Robert, A Man for All Seasons, xviii, 199
bonds, 213
boom-and-bust cycle, 207, 208–209, 217
border control, 80–81
Bourne, Randolph, 163
Bradwell v. Illinois (1873), xxv
Brady Handgun Prevention Act, 128
Brandeis, Louis, 87–88, 89
Brandenburg, Clarence, 44
Bretton Woods, 215
Brewer, Jan, 85
British Petroleum (BP), 12–13
Brooklyn Dodgers, integration, 60
Brown v. Board of Education (1954), 66, 156–157, 188
Bryan, William Jennings, 164
Buchanan, Pat, 8
Bush, George W., 165, 175
business, controls during World Wars, 169
Butler, Smedley Darlington, War Is a Racket, 172
C
Calder v. Bull (1798), xxx
Calhoun, John, 154
California, Proposition 8, 93–94
cartel, 209–210, 211
cause of action, 251
central banking, 205, 206–207
Chase, Samuel, xxix–xxx
checks and balances, 196
China, gun ban, 124–125
Chodorov, Frank, 222, 231, 237
Chomsky, Noam, 38
Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission (2010), 45
civil disobedience, 260
civil law, 251
Civil Rights Act of 1964, 61–63
civil rights movement, xxviii
“clear and present danger,” 42
Clinton, Hillary, 218
Cohen v. California (1971), 249
collective bargaining, 25–26, 64
collectivist, 5
Columbia University, 19
Common Sense (Paine), 7–12
common-law marriages, 90
Commonwealth of Massachusetts v. United States
Department of Health and Human Services (2010), 92
Community Reinvestment Act of 1977, 31–33
conscientious objectors, 167
consensual conduct, criminalization, 243
constitutionality of law, presumption of, 184–188
Continental Congress, 13
contraception, 94–95
contract law, 227–228
contract rights, recklessness with, 33–34
contracts, 27–28
Cosby, William, 192
criminal conduct, 240–241
criminal law, 251
criminalization of offenses, 245
currency, 203
D
Daley, Richard M., 135
Dawson, Joan, 23
debt, government-issued, 233–236
Declaration of Independence, xi, xxix, 1–16, 258–259
defense authorization bill for 2004, 171
Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), 91–94
democracy, 6
democratic majority, 224–226
deportation, 78–79
DiLorenzo, Thomas, 8
District of Columbia v. Heller (2008), 134–136
Donald, James A., 122, 131
Douglas, William O., 38, 188
draft, 167
Dred Scott’s Revenge (Napolitano), 59
drugs, 115–119
Drummond, David, 100
due process, 178
expediency and public necessity, 182–183
Natural Law and, 179–182
presumption of liberty, 183–188
E
economic behavior, power to regulate, 30–31
Economic Opportunity Act of 1964, 218
Eland, Ivan, 171
elections, 44–45, 262
Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965, 218
Elías, Julio, 113
Emanuel, Rahm, 161, 162
eminent domain, 18, 21
English Bill of Rights (1689), 122, 143
enumerated powers, 21
Epstein, Richard, Takings, 25
equality, 14–15
Espionage Act of 1917, 41–42, 169
Eternal Law, xvii–xviii
The Ethics of Liberty (Rothbard), xxvi
evil, 244
ex post facto laws, xxx, 178, 180
Exxon Valdez disaster, 12
F
fairness from government, 177–199
fear, to justify war, 164
Federal Bureau of Investigation, 97
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), 211
Federal Reserve Act of 1913, 207, 212–213
Federal Reserve System, 201–202, 207
Federal Safe School Zone Act, 134
The Federalist Papers, 6–7
Feinberg, Joel, 240
The Moral Limits of the Criminal Law, 244–246
fiefs, 17–18
Filburn, Roscoe, 30
Filled Milk Act, 184
Firearms Owners Protection Act of 1986, 127
food regulation, 106–108
forced association, 52, 57
Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act (FSIA), 148
Forest City Ratner’s (FCR) Atlantic Yards project, 17
Frankfurter, Felix, 197, 199
Franklin, Benjamin, 6, 142
free will, xix, xxi
freedom, 255
myth or reality, xi–xiii
promise of, xxviii–xxxi
war and, 166
freedom not to associate, 52–54
freedom of association, 51–66
freedom of speech, 37–50
obscenity restrictions, 45–47
in political elections, 44–45
restrictions on time, place, and manner, 47–48
freedom to travel, 67–82
Friedman, Milton, 170, 215
frivolous lawsuits, 140
Frohwerk v. United States (1919), 42–43
Fuller, Lon L.,
190–191
G
“gag rule” of Congress, 152
George Washington Bridge (NY/NJ), 72–73, 232
Gilbert, Todd, 133
Gill v. Office of Personnel Management (2010), 92
global monetary system, 215
gold, 203–204, 214, 215, 217, 219
Goldberg, Arthur, 185–186
Goldstein, Robert, 43
Gonzales v. Raich (2005), 250
goods, 4
Google, 87, 100
Gore, Al, 110
government
abuse of power, 2
authority to track individual movement, 96
current state in U.S., 263
Natural Law constraints, xxxi
police power of, 21
purpose of, xiii
regulation of economic behavior, 30–31
right to reject, 257–264
role of, 3
and trust, 237
unjust actions of, 260
government agencies, 169–170
government budget, 171
government-issued debt, 233–236
Great Depression, 214
Greaves, Bettina Bien, 161
Griswold v. Connecticut (1965), 88, 185–186
gross domestic product, war and, 173
gun control, 121, 129–132
Gun Control Act of 1968, 127
gun rights, Supreme Court and, 134–136
H
habeas corpus, 149
Haines, Charles Grove, 178
Hamilton, Alexander, 18, 192–193, 195
Harlan, John Marshall, 58, 154, 249
harm, 241–244
private vs. public, 251–254
Hayek, Friedrich A., 207, 214
Hazlitt, Henry, Economics in One Lesson, 235–236
health care regulation, 100–101
health of state, and war, 161–163
Heisenberg Effect, 86
hemp, 115
Hernandez, Osvaldo, 246–247, 251
Higginson, Stephen, 152
Higgs, Robert, 75, 162, 165–166, 171, 173, 175
Higher Education Act of 1965, 218
Holmes, Oliver Wendell, Jr., 22, 42, 43, 151
Home Building & Loan Association v. Blaisdell (1934), 28
homosexuality, Phelps protest at funeral, 37
“hot burglary,” 130
Human Law, xxvi–xxix
Hurston, Zora Neale, Their Eyes Were Watching God, 65
I
immigration policy, 24–25, 78–81
income taxes, 18, 170
individual, right to discriminate, 53–55
inflation, 211, 216–217
innocent until proven guilty, 181
interest rates, 207–208, 213–214