The Consolidation of State Power via Reconstruction: 1865-1890
All radical schemes to reconstruct the South entailed some more or less permanent expansion of central state activity and expenditures.
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Symposium on Federalism, War, and Reconstruction: Introduction
The War Between the States has been a source of controversy for some time among libertarians.
Book Review of Tariffs, Blockades, and Inflation: The Economics of the Civil War by Robert B. Ekelund, Jr. and Mark Thornton
In this article, Thomas J. DiLorenzo reviews Mark Thornton and Robert B.
The Rise and Fall of Jury Nullification
The United States Constitution guarantees the right to trial by jury in both civil and criminal cases.
A Moral Accounting of the Union and the Confederacy
What it means to be an American, both for Americans and foreigners, is largely determined by one’s attitude toward the war to defeat Southern indep
From Liberty to Democracy: The Transformation of American Government by Randall G. Holcombe
In this article, Dr. Ludwig van den Hauwe reviews Randall G.
The Great Depression Tax Revolts Revisited
David Beito did a great service for the scholarship of liberty and American history with his rediscovery of the Great Depression-era tax resistance
All Government is Excessive: A Rejoinder to Dwight Lee’s “In Defense of Excessive Government”
Given Dwight Lee’s stalwart free enterprise credentials, it is more than passingly curious that the title of his 1998 Presidential Address to the S
Paul to Jeremiah: Calhoun’s Abandonment of Nationalism
This article will describe the series of events that launched John C.
Constitutional Economics and The Calculus of Consent
James Buchanan and Gordon Tullock are widely credited with creating the Public Choice School.
