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19 Lukacs, A New Republic, 6.
20 Keller, America’s Three Regimes, 152.
21 Will, The Pursuit of Virtue and Other Tory Notions, 297.
22 Healy, The Cult of the Presidency, 86.
23 Cooke, The Federalist, 461.
24 Erler, The American Polity, 55.
25 Schudson, The Good Citizen, 6, 115, 145.
26 Ibid., 182, 185, 189.
27 Ceaser, “The Presidential Nomination Mess.”
28 Madison, “Political Observations, 20 April 1795,” 1795.
29 Miller, Great Debates in American History, Vol. II, 19.
30 Keller, America’s Three Regimes, 89, 108.
31 Ibid., 124.
32 Moynihan, “Imperial Government,” 1978.
33 Ibid.
34 Corwin, The President, 18.
35 Wilson, “American Politics, Then & Now.”
36 Roosevelt, “Inaugural Address,” 1933.
37 Bernstein, “Flashback: Barack Obama on the ‘Biggest Problems We’re Facing,’” 2014.
38 Paul, Natural Rights Individualism and Progressivism in American Political Philosophy, 79.
39 Coolidge, The Price of Freedom, 200.
40 Lawson, “The Rise and Rise of the Administrative State,” 1994.
41 Lee, Our Lost Constitution, 63–65.
42 Wallison, “Decentralization, Deference, and the Administrative State,” 2016.
43 Cooke, The Federalist, 324.
44 Marbury v. Madison, 5 U.S. 137 (1803).
45 Ibid., 66.
46 Ibid., 67.
47 Ibid., 70.
48 Ibid.
49 Lee, Our Lost Constitution, 71, 75.
50 Cooke, The Federalist, 421.
51 Lee, Our Lost Constitution, 69–70.
52 Silverglate, Three Felonies a Day, xlx.
53 Lee, Our Lost Constitution, 82.
54 Will, The Leveling Wind, 72.
55 Keller, America’s Three Regimes, 232.
56 DeMuth, “The Bucks Start Here,” 2013.
57 Ibid.
58 Ibid.
59 Goldfarb, “Obama Administration Pushes Banks to Make Home Loans to People with Weaker Credit,” 2013.
60 DeMuth, “The Bucks Start Here,” 2013.
61 Ibid.
62 Ibid.
63 DeMuth, “The Regulatory State,” 2012.
64 Department of Transportation v. Association of American Railroads, 575 U.S. __ (2015).
65 Wilson, Woodrow Wilson, 242.
66 Cooper, “Confronting the Administrative State,” 2015.
67 Ibid.
68 Sasse, “Senator Ben Sasse’s Maiden Speech,” 2015.
69 Kosar, “How to Strengthen Congress,” 2015.
70 McClintock, “How and Why the Senate Must Reform the Filibuster,” 2017.
71 Cost, “Fix the Filibuster,” 2015
72 Kennedy, “Annual Message to the Congress on the State of the Union,” 1962.
73 Kosar, “How to Strengthen Congress,” 2015.
74 Niskanen, Reflections of a Political Economist, 131–132, 134.
75 Cooke, The Federalist, 313.
76 DeMuth, “Repairing Our Fractured Politics,” 2018.
77 Cooke, The Federalist, 349.
78 Gutierrez-Brizuela v. Lynch, 14-9585 (2016).
Chapter 4: The Judicial Supervision of Democracy
1 Jackson, “The Task of Maintaining Our Liberties,” 1953.
2 Kass, Leading a Worthy Life, 383.
3 Keller, America’s Three Regimes, 38.
4 Holzer, The Supreme Court Opinions of Clarence Thomas, 1991–2011, 4.
5 Sandefur, The Conscience of the Constitution, 2.
6 Ibid., 6–7.
7 West Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnette, 319 U.S. 624 (1943).
8 Smith, John Marshall, 171.
9 “English Translation of Magna Carta,” 2014.
10 Sandefur, The Conscience of the Constitution, 13.
11 Washington, “Letter of the President of the Federal Convention,” 1787.
12 Feldman, The Three Lives of James Madison, 75.
13 Paul, Without Precedent, 26–27.
14 Cooke, The Federalist, 313.
15 Ellis, The Quartet, 150–151.
16 Perez v. Brownell, 456 U.S. 44 (1958).
17 Cooke, The Federalist, 526–527.
18 Madison, “Rights,” 1789.
19 Cooke, The Federalist, 251.
20 Boorstin, The Genius of American Politics, 1–2.
21 Barnett, Our Republican Constitution, 23, 34.
22 Ibid., 21, 23.
23 Ibid., 19, 21.
24 Barnett, “Is the Constitution Libertarian?” 2009.
25 Barnett, Our Republican Constitution, 160–161.
26 “The Nomination of Elena Kagan,” 2010.
27 The Congressional Register, Vol. II, 197.
28 Sandefur, The Conscience of the Constitution, 14–15, 163.
29 Magnet, “The Founders’ Grandson, Part II,” 2018.
30 Hayward, Patriotism Is Not Enough, 145, 168.
31 Lincoln, “Fragment on the Constitution and the Union,” 1861.
32 Fletcher v. Peck, 10 U.S. 87 (1810).
33 Lochner v. New York, 198 U.S. 45 (1905).
34 Bernstein, Rehabilitating Lochner, 29.
35 Ibid., 29–33.
36 Ibid., 12, 34.
37 Ibid., 35–36.
38 Ibid., 36.
39 Ibid., 56–57.
40 Ibid., 96.
41 Ibid., 78–79.
42 Ibid., 36, 85, 92.
43 Ibid., 122.
44 Ibid., 36.
45 Bork, The Tempting of America, 49.
46 Sandefur, The Conscience of the Constitution, 84.
47 Wood, Empire of Liberty, 491–492.
48 Ibid., 492–493.
49 Trop v. Dulles, 356 U.S. 86 (1958).
50 “Speech Acts,” 2014.
51 Bailey, First Philosophy, 625.
52 Balkin, Living Originalism, 4, 7, 11–14, 16, 257.
53 Ibid., 28.
54 McConnell, “Originalism and the Desegregation Decisions,” 1995.
55 McConnell, “The Originalist Justification for Brown,” 1995.
56 Souter, “Text of Justice David Souter’s Speech,” 2010.
57 Ibid.
58 Ibid.
59 Ibid.
60 Ibid.
61 Ibid.
62 Ibid.
63 Ibid.
64 Ibid.
65 Ibid.
66 Ibid.
67 Paul, Natural Rights Individualism and Progressivism in American Political Philosophy, 272.
68 “The Final Trump-Clinton Debate Transcript,” 2016.
69 Lincoln, “Inaugural Address,” 1861.
70 Bork, The Tempting of America, 190.
71 Wickard v. Filburn, 317 U.S. 111 (1942).
72 Ibid.
73 United States v. Lopez, 514 U.S. 549 (1995).
74 Ibid.
75 Ibid.
76 Leuchtenburg, The Supreme Court Reborn, 220, 236.
77 Holzer, The Supreme Court Opinions of Clarence Thomas, 1991–2011, 43, 46.
78 Polish National Alliance v. Labor Board, 322 U.S. 643 (1944).
79 Cooke, The Federalist, 523.
80 Bickel, The Least Dangerous Branch, 16, 18.
81 Burke, The Works of Edmund Burke, Volume 3, 112.
82 Cooke, The Federalist, 396.
83 Somin, Democracy and Political Ignorance, 17.
84 Ibid., 19–20, 56, 220.
85 Blair, A Journey, 70.
86 Fisher, “Searching for Explanations,” 2015.
87 Somin, Democracy and Political Ignorance, 143.
88 Gitlow v. New York, 268 U.S. 652 (1925).
89 McCloskey, The Bourgeois Virtues, 395, 397.
90 Mansfield, America’s Constitutional Soul, 156.
91 Jackson, “The Task of Maintaining Our Liberties,” 1953
.
92 The Yale Biographical Dictionary of American Law, 42–43.
93 Hayward, Patriotism Is Not Enough, 167.
94 Sandefur, The Conscience of the Constitution, 5.
95 Ibid., 6.
96 Ibid., 33, 57, 116, 121.
97 Breyer, Making Our Democracy Work, 79.
98 Robinson v. Crown Cork and Seal Company, 06-0714 (2010).
99 Marbury v. Madison, 5 U.S. 137 (1803).
100 Robinson v. Crown Cork and Seal Company, 06-0714 (2010).
101 Ibid.
102 Cooke, The Federalist, 353.
103 Epstein, “Beware of Legal Transitions,” 2003.
104 “Nashville Limos,” 2011.
105 “Louisiana Florists,” 2004.
106 “Louisiana Caskets,” 2010.
107 Powers v. Harris, 03-6014 (2004).
108 Keller, America’s Three Regimes, 96.
109 Brandeis, Letters of Louis D. Brandeis, 344–345.
110 Jackson, “The Task of Maintaining Our Liberties,” 1953.
Chapter 5: Political Economy
1 Hayek, The Fatal Conceit, 76.
2 Emerson, Lincoln the Inventor, 14.
3 New York (state), The Speeches of the Different Governors to the Legislature of the State of New York, 154, 237.
4 Hamilton, “Annapolis Convention. Address of the Annapolis Convention, [14 September 1786],” 1786.
5 Cohens v. Virginia, 19 U.S. 264 (1821).
6 Meinig, The Shaping of America, 399.
7 McPherson, Battle Cry of Freedom, 11–12.
8 Wilson, Constitutional Government in the United States, 26.
9 Gordon, “The Little Miracle Spurring Inequality,” 2014.
10 Winchester, The Men Who United the States, xvi–xix.
11 Ibid., xxiv, 255, 258.
12 Green, Winning Back America, 81.
13 Bradford, History of Plymouth Plantation, 1620–1647, 299–301.
14 Fukuyama, The Origins of Political Order, 65.
15 Will, Suddenly, 12.
16 Fogel, The Fourth Great Awakening and the Future of Egalitarianism, 11, 58–59, 166.
17 Lindsey, The Age of Abundance, 32–34.
18 McCloskey, Bourgeois Equality, xiv–xv, xxiii.
19 McCloskey, The Bourgeois Virtues, 4.
20 McCloskey, Bourgeois Equality, 202–203, 205.
21 Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England, Volume 2, 261.
22 Fukuyama, The End of History and the Last Man, 265.
23 McCloskey, Bourgeois Equality, 203, 207.
24 Smith, The Theory of Moral Sentiments, 29.
25 McCloskey, The Bourgeois Virtues, 410.
26 Tulis, Legacies of Losing in American Politics, 34, 147–148.
27 Gottlieb, The Dream of Reason, 266.
28 Cooke, The Federalist, 419.
29 Locke, “Second Treatise,” 1689.
30 Tocqueville, Democracy in America, 231.
31 Keller, America’s Three Regimes, 25.
32 McCloskey, Bourgeois Equality, 49.
33 Jefferson, Thomas Jefferson, 124.
34 Hamilton, “Alexander Hamilton’s Final Version of the Report on the Subject of Manufactures,” 1791.
35 Cooke, The Federalist, 471.
36 Zwonitzer, The Statesman and the Storyteller, 122.
37 Feldman, The Three Lives of James Madison, 344.
38 Hamilton, Life of Alexander Hamilton, 584.
39 Tocqueville, Democracy in America, 331–333.
40 Stevens, American Political Thought, 76.
41 Madison, The Writings of James Madison, 365.
42 Polanyi, The Great Transformation, 147.
43 Kennedy, “Commencement Address at Yale University,” 1962.
44 Nixon, “Inaugural Address,” 1969.
45 Smith, An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, 311.
46 Hayek, “The Use of Knowledge in Society,” 1945.
47 Ibid.
48 Smith, An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, 241.
49 Hayek, The Constitution of Liberty, 78.
50 Ridley, The Evolution of Everything, 110.
51 Hayek, “The Pretence of Knowledge,” 1974.
52 Ibid.
53 Ibid.
54 Ibid.
55 Hayek, The Fatal Conceit, 76–77.
56 Smith, The Theory of Moral Sentiments, 318.
57 Hayek, The Road to Serfdom, 91.
58 Cochrane, “Russ Roberts on Economic Humility,” 2017.
59 Gordon, The Rise and Fall of American Growth, 1, 37, 57–58, 287, 321.
60 Lukacs, A New Republic, 373.
61 Diggins, The Proud Decades, 349.
62 Galbraith, The Affluent Society, 8, 191.
63 Galbraith, The New Industrial State, 36.
64 Will, One Man’s America, 35.
65 Stigler, “The Intellectual and the Marketplace,” 1965.
66 Carter, “Address to the Nation on Energy,” 1977.
67 Passell, “The Limits to Growth,” 1972.
68 Lomborg, “Environmental Alarmism, Then and Now,” 2012.
69 Ibid.
70 Tierney, “Betting on the Planet,” 1990.
71 Adams, The Works of John Adams, 386.
72 Cowen, The Complacent Class, 168.
73 Ibid., 105, 149.
74 McCloskey, “The Myth of Technological Unemployment,” 2017.
75 McCloskey, The Bourgeois Virtues, 263.
76 Roosevelt, “Radio Address to the Business and Professional Men’s League Throughout the Nation,” 1932.
77 Jackson, “Veto Message,” 1832.
78 Ibid.
79 Cooke, The Federalist, 421.
80 Boaz, The Libertarian Mind, 241.
81 McCloskey, The Bourgeois Virtues, 263.
82 Weisman, The Great Tax Wars, 2–3.
83 Ibid., 11, 57, 102.
84 Ibid., 253.
85 Ibid., 34, 258–259, 345.
86 Ibid., 281, 354.
87 Paul, Natural Rights Individualism and Progressivism in American Political Philosophy, 133.
88 Lincoln, The Writings of Abraham Lincoln, 106, 110.
89 Blum, “The Uneasy Case for Progressive Taxation,” 1952.
90 Kennedy, “Remarks of Senator John F. Kennedy,” 1960.
91 Blum, “The Uneasy Case for Progressive Taxation,” 1952.
92 Ibid.
93 Ibid.
94 Ibid.
95 Nisbet, Prejudices, 107–109.
96 Hirsch, Social Limits to Growth, 18, 20, 26, 48, 52.
97 Ibid., 49, 51.
98 Frankfurt, On Inequality, x, 7, 10–11, 14, 69.
99 Scheidel, The Great Leveler, 298–300.
100 Schumpeter, Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy, 67.
101 Cochrane, “Why and How We Care about Inequality,” 2014.
102 Ibid.
103 Ibid.
104 Boudreaux, “Most Ordinary Americans in 2016 Are Richer Than Was John D. Rockefeller in 1916,” 2016.
105 Thompson, “America in 1915,” 2016.
106 Barone, Our Nation, 28.
107 Foner, A Short History of Reconstruction, 10.
108 Roosevelt, “Radio Address to the Business and Professional Men’s League Throughout the Nation,” 1932.
109 Roosevelt, “Inaugural Address,” 1937.
110 Roosevelt, “State of the Union Message to Congress,” 1944.
111 Ibid.
112 Will, Suddenly, 159.
113 Lincoln, “First Annual Message,” 1861.
114 McPherson, Battle Cry of Freedom, 28.
115 Postrel, The Future and Its Enemies, 16, 51, 79, 91, 147.
Chapter 6: Culture and Opportunity
1 Weisman, Daniel Patrick Moynihan, 3.
2 Risen, The Bill of the Century, 1, 189, 227–238.
3 Bork, The Tempting of America, 76.
4 Miller, Great Debates in American History
, Vol. VI, 13.
5 Johnson, “Commencement Address at Howard University,” 1965.
6 Duggan, “Mayor Mike Duggan Keynote Address,” 2017.
7 Croly, The Promise of American Life, 181.
8 Roosevelt, “The Radical Movement Under Conservative Direction,” 1910.
9 Obama, “Address Before a Joint Session of Congress on the State of the Union,” 2013.
10 Berns, Making Patriots, 120.
11 Johnson, “Annual Message to the Congress on the State of the Union,” 1964.
12 Hemingway, “The Snows of Kilimanjaro,” 23.
13 Anderson, Youth Employment and Public Policy, 64–87.
14 Turow, The Laws of Our Fathers, 66, 247.
15 Will, The Pursuit of Happiness and Other Sobering Thoughts, 197.
16 Thomas, dir. The G.I. Bill: The Law That Changed America (video).
17 Ibid.
18 Will, With a Happy Eye, But…, 252–253.
19 Barone, Our Country, 201.
20 Wilson, Two Nations, 19.
21 Hodgson, America in Our Time, 448–449.
22 Coleman, “Equality of Educational Opportunity,” 1966.
23 Hanushek, “The Impact of Differential Expenditures on School Performance,” 1989.
24 “House of Representatives,” 1991.
25 Shaw v. Reno, 509 U.S. 630 (1993).
26 Sandefur, Frederick Douglass, 101, 103, 108.
27 McCloskey, Bourgeois Dignity, 54, 57.
28 Stevenson, “Commencement Address by Adlai Stevenson,” 1955.
29 Hayward, “Reagan Casts Big Shadow with Achievements,” 2004.
30 Johnson, “Remarks at the University of Michigan,” 1964.
31 Eberstadt, “The Great Society at Fifty,” 2014.
32 Ibid.
33 Ibid.
34 White, The Making of the President, 365.
35 Eberstadt, A Nation of Takers, 8–9, 23.
36 Ibid., 43, 47–48, 56–57.
37 Ibid., 24, 53.
38 Eberstadt, Men Without Work, 3, 18, 27, 35, 38, 80.
39 Ibid., 41, 127, 180–181.
40 Ibid., 68, 152–154.
41 Eberstadt, “American Exceptionalism and the Entitlement State,” 2015.
42 Ibid.
43 Ibid.
44 Ibid.
45 Hubbard, “Regaining America’s Balance,” 2013.
46 Paul, Natural Rights Individualism and Progressivism in American Political Philosophy, 288.
47 Wilson, Woodrow Wilson, 40.
48 McSmith, No Such Thing as Society.
49 Obama, “Remarks by the President at a Campaign Event in Roanoke, Virginia,” 2012.
50 “Elizabeth Warren on Fair Taxation,” 2011.
51 Okun, Equality and Efficiency, 42.
52 Sidgwick, The Principles of Political Economy, 517.
53 Mill, Principles of Political Economy, 212.