It Is Dangerous to Be Right When the Government Is Wrong (46 page)

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