It Is Dangerous to Be Right When the Government Is Wrong (47 page)

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

Internal Revenue Service,
140

Internet searches,
99
–
100

interracial marriages,
89
–
90

Iran, elimination of organ transplant shortage,
113

Iraq,
175

Iroquois tribe, travel restrictions,
81

J

Jackson, Andrew,
205
–
206

Jacobs, Glenn,
24

Japan, U.S. intent to provoke attack by,
160

Japanese Americans, internment,
73
–
74
,
167
–
168

Jazzercise,
51
–
52

Jefferson, Thomas,
xvi
,
xviii
,
xxxiv
,
14
,
205
,
216
–
217
,
258
–
259

Jim Crow laws,
59
–
60
,
61
,
191

Jindal, Bobby,
12

Johnson, Lyndon B.,
164
–
165
,
218

judicial petitions,
145
–
147

jury,
192
–
199

jury nullification,
193

just power,
21
–
22

juvenile justice system,
196
–
197

K

Katzenbach v. McClung
(1964),
62

Kelo v. City of New London
(2005),
19
–
20

Kennedy, Anthony M.,
45

Keynes, John Maynard,
215

Khrushchev, Nikita, xv

kidney dialysis costs,
112
–
113

kidney shortage,
108
–
114

king,
15

King, Martin Luther Jr.,
xxviii
–
xxix
,
xxxiii
,
157
,
260

Koch, Ed,
29

Korematsu v. United States
(1944),
74
,
168

Kristallnacht,
123
–
124

Ku Klux Klan,
44

L

labor unions,
63
–
65

Las Vegas,
95

laws,
189
–
192

vs. acts,
xxvii
,
xxxi

fairness in,
179
–
182

standards,
190

lawsuits, frivolous,
140

legal paternalism,
246
–
250

legal tender,
202

legislative petitions,
145
–
147

lender of last resort,
205

Lewis, Michael,
The Big Short
,
32

libertarian understanding of Natural Rights,
xxiv

liberty,
259

presumption of,
183
–
188

vs. security,
198
–
199

libido dominandi
,
150
–
151