Principles Of Government

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(Foundational) Constitutional Issues, Federalism, Federal Agencies and Administrative Law

Teach the Republic: Why Every Civics Crisis Traces Back to Teacher Preparation AA

By Samuel J. Abrams - September 05, 2025

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By Samuel J. Abrams – If our aim is to sustain a functioning, self-governing republic, then it is not only appropriate but essential that deep constitutional study be centered in ordinary institutions. We cannot confine this work to boutique seminars for the well-connected and already powerful. The work must also happen where most Americans – especially future teachers – actually train: regional public universities, teaching-focused colleges, and continuing education programs that are accessible and affordable. Read More

Jimmy Carter, Champion of Deregulation AA

By Phil Gramm -Sept. 30, 2024

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By Phil Gramm – Jimmy Carter, who turns 100 on Oct. 1, doesn’t get enough credit for the quarter-century economic boom from 1983 to 2008 and the underlying resilience of the economy since. Without Mr. Carter’s deregulation of airlines, trucking, railroads, energy and communications, America might not have had the ability to diversify its economy and lead the world in high-tech development when our postwar domination of manufacturing ended in the late 1970s. The Carter deregulation helped fuel the Reagan economic renaissance and continues to make possible the powerful innovations that remake our world. Read More

How Public Unions Took Taxpayers Hostage AA

By Fred Siegel - Jan. 25, 2011

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By Fred Siegel – But there was another “rights” movement, largely overlooked, that has also had a profound effect on American life. The looming public-pension crisis that threatens to bankrupt city, county and state governments had its origins in those same years when public employees, already protected by civil-service rules, gained the right to bargain collectively. Read More