It Is Dangerous to Be Right When the Government Is Wrong (48 page)

Lincoln, Abraham,
207

Lindbeck, Assar,
30

litigation procedure,
193
–
195

Locke, John,
1
–
2
,
4

London, surveillance camera system,
84

Loving v. Virginia
(1967),
90
–
91

M

Madison, James,
18
,
39
,
122
,
147
,
164
,
166
,
174
,
182
,
205

The Federalist Papers
,
6
–
7

Magna Carta (1215),
195

majority rule,
xxxi
,
xxxii
,
6

marijuana,
117
,
250

market economy, wealth redistribution and,
232

marriage,
88
–
91

Marshall, John,
153

Marshall, Thurgood,
40

McCollum, Arthur, memorandum,
160

McDonald v. City of Chicago
(2010),
135

McKinley, William,
164

Medicare,
218

mercantile system,
11

military presence,
10
–
11

military-industrial complex,
172

Miller v. California
(1973),
46

minimum wage law,
25
,
33
–
34
,
80

minority, Rule of Law to protect,
57

Miron, Jeffrey,
117

money,
201
–
220

money supply,
209
–
210
,
211
,
216
,
217
–
218

Moore, Michael S.,
254

moral limits for laws,
239
–
255

moral universalism,
197

Morgenthau, Henry Jr.,
236

mortgage lenders, racism accusations,
31

Mullen, Michael,
218

Murphy, Frank,
168

mutual consent, in freedom to associate,
52

N

Napolitano, Janet,
85

National Bank Act of 1864,
207

National Currency Act of 1863,
207

National Firearms Act of 1934,
126
–
127

National Labor Relations Act (NLRA),
63
–
64

National Organ Transplant Act of 1984,
109
,
110

National Security Letters,
48
,
96
–
98

Natural Law,
xvi
,
20
,
187

due process and,
179
–
182

man-made law role in,
xxvii

and moral universalism,
197

Natural Rights,
xxii
–
xxvi
,
4

capacity to foil tyranny,
xxv

libertarian understanding of,
xxiv

Navigation Acts (1650),
11

Nazis, gun laws,
123

negative freedom of association,
53

New York City

ban of trans fats at restaurants,
106

camera surveillance,
83
–
84

landlord-tenant law,
23

public transportation,
77

rent control,
29

New York Weekly Journal
,
192

Nixon, Richard,
215
,
218

O

Obama administration,
12
,
68
,
236

obscenity restrictions,
45
–
47

O'Connor, Sandra Day,
20
,
250

offense,
244
–
246

Olmstead v. United States
(1928),
87
–
88

Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act,
127

organ transplants,
108
–
114

P

Paine, Thomas,
13
,
53
,
258

Common Sense
,
7
–
12

Papachristou v. City of Jacksonville
(1972),
189
,
191

Patriot Act,
24
,
48
,
96
–
99
,
169
,
262

Paul, Rand,
62
–
63

Paul, Ron,
80
,
201

End the Fed
,
214

peace, right to enjoy,
159
–
175

Pearl Harbor,
161

Pennsylvania Coal v. Mahon
(1922),
22

people, rights over their government,
141
–
145

permits, for using property,
24

petitions, judicial vs. legislative,
145
–
147

Pfizer,
19
–
21

Phelps, Fred,
37
–
38

Pilon, Roger,
57

Plessy v. Ferguson
(1896),
58
,
156
,
188

police power, of federal government,
21

popular sovereignty, right to petition and,
142

Portnick, Jennifer,
51

positive freedom of association,
52

Positivism,
xviii
,
xxxi
–
xxxiii
,
74
,
223

Constitution rejection of,
xxx

power, localization of,
10

prison population,
241

privacy, right to,
83
–
101

private business, right to discriminate,
53
–
55

private property,
17
,
19
–
20
,
25
–
26

private sector,
75

probable cause, and property forfeiture,
22

procedural due process,
178

professional sports, gender-based discrimination,
57
–
58

progressive tax,
224
–
226

prohibitions,
105
–
106

Prokhorov, Mikhail,
17

property rights,
xxv
–
xxvi
,
17
–
35
,
223

permits for use,
24

right to transfer,
27
–
29

rights included in ownership,
23
–
24

use determination,
4

prosperity, from war,
173
–
174

prostitution,
104
–
106

protective tariffs,
8

public debt,
233
–
236

public housing,
230

public necessity,
230
–
231

R

railroads, government-subsidized,
77
–
78

Rand, Ayn,
5
,
101

Ratner, Bruce,
17

reason,
xix

redlining,
31

rehabilitation of criminals,
254

rent control,
29
–
30

Revenue Act of 1942,
170

Richardson, James O.,
160

right to petition for redress of grievances,
139
–
157

duty of government to respond,
151
–
154

Rule 11 motions,
155
–
157

rights,
3
–
5

source of,
xv
–
xxxiv

Roback, Jennifer,
59

Robinson, Jackie,
60

Roosevelt, Eleanor,
161

Roosevelt, Franklin,
74
,
159
,
167
,
214

Roosevelt, Theodore,
212

Rothbard, Murray,
201
,
213

The Ethics of Liberty
,
xxvi

Rothschild, Amschel,
205

Rule 11 motions,
155
–
157

Rule of Law,
57
,
162

Rumsfeld, Donald,
175

S

sacrifice,
5

Saenz v. Roe
(1999),
71

sales tax,
28
,
229

same-sex marriages,
91
–
94

San Francisco, artificially sweetened drink ban,
106

Scalia, Antonin,
135

Schenck, Charles T.,
42

Schulz, Robert,
153

science, laws of,
xvii
–
xviii

search warrants.
See
National Security Letters

security, vs. liberty,
198
–
199

self-defense,
121
–
137

self-evident truths,
xix
–
xx

self-preservation,
xix

“separate but equal,”
58

September 11th 2001 attacks,
96
,
148

Seven Bishops Case,
142
–
143

sex, payment for,
104
–
105

sexual freedom,
94
–
95

Shapiro v. Thompson
(1969),
72

Siegel, Norman,
19

slavery,
6
,
73

Smith, Norman B.,
141

Snyder, Matthew, Phelps protest at funeral,
37

social compact,
257

social contract, taxation and,
226
–
228

social justice,
229

socialism,
223

sovereign immunity,
148
–
150

special interests,
11
–
13

The Spirit of ‘76
(film),
43

state.
See also
government

right to reject,
257
–
264

war as justification for,
163

states, constraints on,
xxxi

Stimson, Henry L.,
160

stock market crash of 1929,
214

Stossel, John,
116
–
117

Strayer, Joseph R.,
141

stupidity, moral duty to disobey,
258
–
260

subsidiarity,
xxiv

substantive due process,
178

Sutherland, George,
28
–
29

Switzerland,
131

T

Tabarrok, Alex,
112

Takings
(Epstein),
25

Tauro, Joseph,
92
,
93

Tax Relief and Health Care Act of 2006,
140

taxation,
221
–
237

evil of,
222
–
224

progressive tax,
224
–
226

social contract and,
226
–
228

Tea Party movement,
262

theft,
223

Thomas, Clarence,
20

torts,
251
,
253

Transportation Security Administration (TSA),
67
–
68