The states have important regulatory functions, laying down many rules that business and trade unions must observe and obey. ... Real federalism does not seek to authorize states; rather it seeks to discipline governments by forcing them to compete for citizens' business. ... Overtaxed New Yorkers shop in New Jersey, they influenced New York to provide tax-free shopping days. ... Fifty competing states competing for citizen and business allegiance are far favorable to a centralized one-size-fits-all government. ... Let the same transactions,now be goverened by the card issuers'...

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Is the acceptance of pornography in our society a question of free speech and expression? ... Until this moment, the constitutional doctrine of free speech has developed without taking equality seriously - either the problem of social inequality or the mandate of substantive legal equality." (MacKinnon 71) On the other hand, there is the opinion held by many that "If the First Amendment means anything, it means that a State has no business telling a man, sitting alone in his own home, what books he may read, or what films he may watch." ... Free speech and expression is an essential part of Am...

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Libertarianism is the political philosophy rooted in the belief that people should be allowed to live their lives as they see fit, free from government coercion and regulation--so long as they do not infringe upon the rights of others. ... Furthermore, any interference in free commerce and laissez-faire economics by government would prove to be harmful. ... In 1971, a couple of those Americans, antagonistic Goldwater Republicans abhorred by Richard Nixon and what the GOP had become--socially conservative and the pusher of big government--gathered in the home of MIT graduate and founder of a...

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The United States Constitution was one of the most revolutionary documents of all time. It was originally intended to apply only to the federal government, while the individual states would have their own sets of laws that they would follow. However over time, the Constitution began to apply to the ...

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