by Matthew Bransgrove | Jul 13, 2015 | The Rule of Law
Granting officials discretion is unavoidable whenever the government steps outside its legitimate role. When the government intervenes in money markets, when it bails out companies, when it seeks to eliminate ‘harmful’ competition, regulate prices, or force business...
by Matthew Bransgrove | Jul 13, 2015 | The Rule of Law
Discretion is objectionable because with it comes uncertainty. Good government requires certainty. Certainty of outcome allows individuals to fully command their own destinies. It allows individuals to plan their lives and businesses to plan their work. Moreover,...
by Matthew Bransgrove | Jul 13, 2015 | The Rule of Law
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal —The Declaration of Independence America’s Founding Fathers were referring to the natural law; that each of us, from the citadel of our minds, looks out upon the world with the same consciousness,...
by Matthew Bransgrove | Jul 13, 2015 | The Rule of Law
The rule of law means that government must never coerce an individual except in the enforcement of a known rule, it constitutes a limitation on the powers of all government, including the powers of the legislature. —Friedrich Hayek. The Constitution of Liberty, 1960....
by Matthew Bransgrove | Jul 13, 2015 | The Rule of Law
The nature of man is so frail, that wheresoever the word of a single person has had the force of a law, the innumerable extravagances and mischiefs it has produced have been so notorious, that all nations who are not stupid, slavish and brutish, have always abominated...
by Matthew Bransgrove | Jul 13, 2015 | The Rule of Law
Freedom of men under government is, to have a standing rule to live by, common to every one of that society, and made by the legislative power erected in it; a liberty to follow my own will in all things, where the rule prescribes not; and not to be subject to the...
