Frederic Bastiat Quotes
I cannot possibly understand how fraternity can be legally enforced without liberty being legally destroyed
Frederic Bastiat, 1801-1850, French Political Economist, The Law, 1850
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See {42210}, {626788}, {626784}. Palmer had been a potential Presidential candidate until his excesses ended that possibility.
There was extensive persecution of Mormons with mobs denouncing them and attacking Mormon facilities and people often with the support of the government officials who were charged with protecting people and maintaining law and order.
This has been one of the fundamental debates in America since its founding. Which is more important, the preservation of civil rights and personal liberty or the supremacy of the law and the stability of our institutions. In war, the tension is always existent. In law enforcement, there is also a common conflict. Prohibition, like the later War on Drugs, was not able to be enforced without the invasion of personal rights. Americans decided that Prohibition benefits were not worth it/ The debate is ongoing with respect to the War on Drugs.
The Bank was privately owned. Jackson was a major opponent of the Bank. See his description {630650} .
The "administrative state" was the term used for a government had had powers and used them to regulate things and areas of society without each specific regulation being voted upon by the legislature. In America sicne the New Deal there have been so many areas that have regulations that a single agency like the Environmental Protection Agency might issue in a year more regulations than the entire Congress considers in all areas put together. All these regulatory powers are delegated by Congress passing legislation authorizing it, and Congress can legislate any change in any regulation it wants, but the modern state is so complesx and areas so specialzied that Congress has preferred to delegate. There are a few who legal scholars and politicians who believe that it is unconstitutional for the legislature to delegate powers to the executive branch and no regulations have validity unless specifically passed by Comgress. There are some others who have not taken a position on this point but who believe that of an administrative state can regulate phases of citizens lives it is bound to circumscribe personal freedom as all legislation does to some extent. This quotation was used by opponents of Judge Gorsuch in arguing that he was unfit for the Supreme Court as he was out of touch with the Administrative State which America gradually became and rapidly in the New Deal and in the 80 years thereafter a very extensive administrative state. Gorsuch's views were based on classic political pholosophy but there were some ultra conservatives who did not want any regulation of business by Congress or Administrative Agencies and therefore supported Gorsuch and the few others with this view as if Agencies were not able to issue regulations there was no practical way that Congress could issue as many and regulation would be reduced which is what they desired.
Claude-Frédéric Bastiat was a French economist, writer and a prominent member of the French Liberal School.
