Cato Handbook for Congress: Policy Recommendations for the 108th CongressCato Institute, 2003 - 676 Seiten Offering policy recommendations supported by brief rationales, this handbook offers the capitalist-libertarian perspective on issues currently facing Congress. Highlights include advice on campaign finance reform, the USA PATRIOT Act, the war on drugs, monetary policy, deregulation, taxes, education. |
Inhalt
XL | 343 |
XLI | 343 |
XLII | 359 |
XLIII | 369 |
XLIV | 383 |
XLV | 395 |
XLVI | 403 |
XLVII | 407 |
XLVIII | 415 |
XLIX | 429 |
L | 430 |
LI | 437 |
LII | 451 |
LIII | 461 |
LIV | 475 |
LV | 489 |
LVI | 489 |
LVII | 497 |
LVIII | 505 |
LIX | 513 |
LX | 521 |
LXI | 529 |
LXII | 541 |
LXIII | 549 |
LXIV | 559 |
LXV | 565 |
LXVI | 575 |
LXVII | 585 |
LXVIII | 591 |
LXIX | 601 |
LXX | 611 |
LXXI | 612 |
LXXII | 621 |
LXXIII | 629 |
LXXIV | 641 |
LXXV | 651 |
LXXVI | 659 |
LXXVII | 673 |
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
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Beliebte Passagen
Seite 30 - ... to compel a man to furnish contributions of money for the propagation of opinions which he disbelieves is sinful and tyrannical...
Seite 12 - So that however it may be mistaken, the end of law is not to abolish or restrain, but to preserve and enlarge freedom. For ' in all the states of created beings, capable of laws, where there is no law there is no freedom.
Seite 14 - 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...
Seite 174 - But if the power to exercise exclusive legislation in all cases whatsoever over the District of Columbia; if the power to lay and collect taxes, duties, imposts, and excises, to pay the debts and provide for the common defense and general welfare of the United States...
Seite 107 - President is authorized to use all necessary and appropriate force against those nations, organizations, or persons he determines planned, authorized, committed, or aided the terrorist attacks that occurred on September 11, 2001, or harbored such organizations or persons, in order to prevent any future acts of international terrorism against the United States by such nations, organizations or persons.
Seite 15 - Government 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 control the governed ; and in the next place oblige it to control itself.
Seite 430 - The Federal Insecticide, Fungicide and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA) and the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) authorize EPA to regulate products that adversely affect indoor air quality.
Seite 108 - Those who are to conduct a war cannot in the nature of things, be proper or safe judges, whether a war ought to be commenced, continued or concluded. They are barred from the latter functions by a great principle in free government, analogous to that which separates the sword from the purse, or the power of executing from the power of enacting laws.
Seite 76 - When the legislative and executive powers are united in the same person, or in the same body of magistrates, there can be no liberty; because apprehensions may arise lest the same monarch or senate should enact tyrannical laws, to execute them in a tyrannical manner.
Seite 76 - The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or many, and whether hereditary, self-appointed, or elective, may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny.