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By Alliance Alert

Reihan Salaam writing at National Review Online, The Agenda: "Basically, we had a limited government until 1937. Then, after the court-packing imbroglio, we no longer had a limited government. In my view, this is a very bad thing. The death of the nondelegation doctrine and the concept of a federal government limited in its scope to a fairly narrow set of enumerated powers has hollowed out what was a system of government that was unusually conducive to freedom, local democracy, institutional creativity, and much else besides . . . For a wide variety of reasons, some of them having to do with the exigencies of armed conflict and the perceived threat posed by radical political movements, we abandoned one set of institutional tools, and institutional restraints, for a kludgy hybrid that has proven deeply dysfunctional, yet not so dysfunctional as to completely smother the forces of creativity and economic progress. Or at least that's my stylized take on it."

Full post as published by Constitutionally Correct on April 05, 2010 (boomark / email).