Book Announcement: Abel Upshur’s “A Brief Enquiry into the True Nature and Character of Our Federal Government”

I am pleased to announce that Abel Upshur’s 132-page book A Brief Enquiry into the True Nature and Character of Our Federal Government: Being a Review of Judge Story’s Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States has now been reprinted as No. 120 of my Classic Reprints series. Here is a brief description:

First at the Trough

This report in the Christian Science Monitor brings news that surprises little. It seems the affirmative-action program in South Africa has turned into a giveaway to those with government connections.

Go here to read the details, which are as familiar as they are predictable.

The Fiasco of the Common Agricultural Policy

From mountains of butter and beef to imaginary cows, the European Union’s Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) proves to be an ongoing wreck, despite perpetual reforms. Yumi Kim writes that auditors refused to sign off the accounts for the twelfth year. The European Union has been reforming the CAP over the last fifty years but unless its existence is seriously challenged, the fiasco will only continue. This relic from the 1950s has met none of its objectives and only produced enormous market distortions.

How Empires Bamboozle the Bourgeoisie

There can be no compromise between the liberal idea and the imperial idea, writes Lew Rockwell, and no special considerations justify replacing the former with the latter. “The idea of liberalism starts with the freedom of the individual,” Mises wrote. “It rejects all rule of some persons over others; it knows no master peoples and no subject peoples, just as within the nation itself it distinguishes between no masters and no serfs. For fully developed imperialism, the individual no longer has value. He is valuable to it only as a member of the whole, as a soldier of an army.”
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