In two recent cases, Neil Gorsuch joined the "liberal" wing of the Court to side with Indian tribes in enhancing tribal sovereignty. This is a good thing for limiting and decentralizing government power.
There is no evidence that properly trained and armed private citizens would do a worse job than government "law enforcement" personnel in enhancing school safety.
In order to destroy the Republic in favor of empire, the new Roman dictators systematically dismantled the Republic's system of local autonomy and self-rule.
Jeff Deist will address the Mises Institute Brazil's annual Austrian school conference in Sao Paulo.
Ryan McMaken joins the Human Action Podcast for a deep dive into Mises's definitive book on liberal society.
Some states have proposed overturning laws that ban local governments from using housing policies like rent control. Rent control is terrible, but there's no reason to believe state governments ought to dictate housing policy to local governments.
"Free private cities" are similar to microstates but are based on the idea of explicit contractual agreements between residents and the city government. How would these entities function?
Yoram Hazony’s critique of Hayek highlights interesting fissures in theories of political economy on the Right.
Some states are passing laws where majority approval is found in just a handful of counties. This means just one or two regions of large states are forcing laws on the rest.
Decentralisation should not stop at Brexit. Federalism is a sustainable answer to Britain’s constitutional problems.
