The Word “Actual” in the Constitution
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Delegated Powers are Limited Powers of Government
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The General Welfare
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Rights and the United States Constitution: The Declension from Natural law to Legal Positivism
Georgia Law Review Vol. 13:1447 Other participants in this Symposium have dealt with the issue: of defining rights, describing their source, and delimiting...
The Constitutional Chaos of Industrial Policy
Cato Journal, Vol.4, No. 2 (Fall 1984)Introduction
As its contemporary advocates employ the term, “industrial policy” imports a peculiar form of governmental intervention...
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