Transferring Power To The States.

Part of the "Critiques of Libertarianism" site.
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Last updated 12/18/07.

Libertarians frequently prefer to decentralize government power by moving it to the states. Sometimes that's not good planning.

Links

The Devil In Devolution: John D. Donahue's The American Prospect article that discusses races to the bottom and other pitfalls of moving federal government responsibilities to the states.
The Case Against Secession: Mackubin Thomas Owens (at the Claremont Institute) takes libertarians to task for their support of secessionism, which is largely based on the bad constitutional interpretation of Stephens and Calhoun.

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Copyright 2007 by Mike Huben ( mhuben@world.std.com ).
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