Enl. and updated ed. published as: The wayward welfare state. c1981. Includes bibliographical references.
"In Crisis and Leviathan, economist and historian Robert Higgs shows how Big Government emerged from responses to national emergencies that occurred as attitudes about the role of government were changing dramatically.
The Rise of Big Government chronicles the phenomenal growth of local, state, and federal government over the last 100 years.
The book builds upon what students have already learned and emphasizes connections between topics as well as between theory and applications.
This challenging book explores the debates over the scope of the enumerated powers of Congress and the Fourteenth Amendment that accompanied the expansion of federal authority during the period between the beginning of the Civil War and the ...
A critical voice in the most pressing debates of our time, The Rise and Fall of American Growth is at once a tribute to a century of radical change and a harbinger of tougher times to come.
The Politics of Power: A Critical Introduction to American Government
Grounded in foundational debates, classic political science scholarship, and the best contemporary analysis of developmental trends, this reader invites introductory students to probe the historical dynamics that brought the United States ...
... Originalism, Federalism, and the American Constitutional Enterprise: A Historical Inquiry (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2007), 3–10. 9. Earle, ed., The ... Federalism and the Making of America, 34. Bruce Ackerman, 578 Endnotes.
Growth of American Republic
Wade (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998), 241– 54. 31. Griswold v. Connecticut, 507–27; Garrow, Liberty and Sexuality, 196– 269. 32. Eisenstadt v. Baird, 405 U.S. 438 (1972); Roe v. Wade, 410 U.S. 113 (1973); Garrow, ...