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The Necessity of Government

Political-economic theory in America is increasingly losing its compass. Sustainable Development activists promote policies of unlimited government intervention and many intellectuals promote the opposite side of the political spectrum – anarcho capitalism. This 30 year old essay charts the course for a political-economic theory predicated o­n reason and logic – the necessity of limited government. From the Freeman, April 1974.

After Decades of Abuse - The Challenge to Restore Property Rights in California

In 1939 Winston Churchill struggled with the task of forecasting the actions of Russia:  “It is a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma.”  The same can be said of the jurisprudential state of the United States Constitution’s takings clause, as set forth in the Fifth Amendment:  “[N]or shall private property be taken for public use without just compensation.”

"To release the potential productivity and diversity of a landscape, an owner must be free to engage in rigorous disturbance, and free to pursue a reasoned and creative process of trial and error. This process would be suited to the choice of each individual and the uniqueness of each property,"

–Michael Shaw