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Friday, June 27, 2003


Just Like Sweden?
Didja ever notice? In the last 40 years, laws governing sexual behavior have loosened: Griswold v. Connecticut (establishing the "right to privacy"); Loving v. Virginia (laws against mixed-race marriages struck down); Roe v. Wade (establishing a right to abortion) and its successors (which included the conclusion that "At the heart of liberty is the right to define one's own concept of existence, of meaning, of the universe and the mystery of human life."); and now, Lawrence v. Texas.

While the sexual liberty of Americans was increasing in those years, their economic liberty was decreasing, with government taking an ever-increasing share of the economy.

Just like Sweden. But with lower tax rates.

"Justice Louis D. Brandeis'?s metaphor of the states as "laboratories" for policy experiments ... had almost nothing to do with federalism and everything to do with his commitment to scientific socialism. .... To this day, it continues to inhibit a truly experimental, federalist politics." -- Michael S. Greve

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