Wednesday, May 18, 2005
Can the Supreme Court may us free?
Lew Rockwell argues that the decline of federalism is the decline of freedom.The recent Supreme Court decision liberating wine consumers might regulate them in the long run.Rockwell says "Economic libertarians have usually celebrated the decision of Lochner v. New York in 1905, which invalidated state-level labor laws, but look what happened: once the federal government acquired the power to do 'good,' it promptly went about doing bad. The wartime central planning of Wilson abolished economic liberty and the New Deal resurrected wartime planning in peacetime. The iron regulatory grip of the state hasn't loosened in any way. At every step it has been approved by the Supreme Court, the great agency that supposedly liberated wine consumers." Here is a argument for Janice Brown to use if she ever gets nominated to the U.S.Supreme Court.You can be for liberty of contract but against Lochner because it's at odds with federalism.LewRockwell.com