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Internal Revenue Service, 140
Internet searches, 99–100
interracial marriages, 89–90
Iran, elimination of organ transplant shortage, 113
Iraq, 175
Iroquois tribe, travel restrictions, 81
J
Jackson, Andrew, 205–206
Jacobs, Glenn, 24
Japan, U.S. intent to provoke attack by, 160
Japanese Americans, internment, 73–74, 167–168
Jazzercise, 51–52
Jefferson, Thomas, xvi, xviii, xxxiv, 14, 205, 216–217, 258–259
Jim Crow laws, 59–60, 61, 191
Jindal, Bobby, 12
Johnson, Lyndon B., 164–165, 218
judicial petitions, 145–147
jury, 192–199
jury nullification, 193
just power, 21–22
juvenile justice system, 196–197
K
Katzenbach v. McClung (1964), 62
Kelo v. City of New London (2005), 19–20
Kennedy, Anthony M., 45
Keynes, John Maynard, 215
Khrushchev, Nikita, xv
kidney dialysis costs, 112–113
kidney shortage, 108–114
king, 15
King, Martin Luther Jr., xxviii–xxix, xxxiii, 157, 260
Koch, Ed, 29
Korematsu v. United States (1944), 74, 168
Kristallnacht, 123–124
Ku Klux Klan, 44
L
labor unions, 63–65
Las Vegas, 95
laws, 189–192
vs. acts, xxvii, xxxi
fairness in, 179–182
standards, 190
lawsuits, frivolous, 140
legal paternalism, 246–250
legal tender, 202
legislative petitions, 145–147
lender of last resort, 205
Lewis, Michael, The Big Short, 32
libertarian understanding of Natural Rights, xxiv
liberty, 259
presumption of, 183–188
vs. security, 198–199
libido dominandi, 150–151
Lincoln, Abraham, 207
Lindbeck, Assar, 30
litigation procedure, 193–195
Locke, John, 1–2, 4
London, surveillance camera system, 84
Loving v. Virginia (1967), 90–91
M
Madison, James, 18, 39, 122, 147, 164, 166, 174, 182, 205
The Federalist Papers, 6–7
Magna Carta (1215), 195
majority rule, xxxi, xxxii, 6
marijuana, 117, 250
market economy, wealth redistribution and, 232
marriage, 88–91
Marshall, John, 153
Marshall, Thurgood, 40
McCollum, Arthur, memorandum, 160
McDonald v. City of Chicago (2010), 135
McKinley, William, 164
Medicare, 218
mercantile system, 11
military presence, 10–11
military-industrial complex, 172
Miller v. California (1973), 46
minimum wage law, 25, 33–34, 80
minority, Rule of Law to protect, 57
Miron, Jeffrey, 117
money, 201–220
money supply, 209–210, 211, 216, 217–218
Moore, Michael S., 254
moral limits for laws, 239–255
moral universalism, 197
Morgenthau, Henry Jr., 236
mortgage lenders, racism accusations, 31
Mullen, Michael, 218
Murphy, Frank, 168
mutual consent, in freedom to associate, 52
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Napolitano, Janet, 85
National Bank Act of 1864, 207
National Currency Act of 1863, 207
National Firearms Act of 1934, 126–127
National Labor Relations Act (NLRA), 63–64
National Organ Transplant Act of 1984, 109, 110
National Security Letters, 48, 96–98
Natural Law, xvi, 20, 187
due process and, 179–182
man-made law role in, xxvii
and moral universalism, 197
Natural Rights, xxii–xxvi, 4
capacity to foil tyranny, xxv
libertarian understanding of, xxiv
Navigation Acts (1650), 11
Nazis, gun laws, 123
negative freedom of association, 53
New York City
ban of trans fats at restaurants, 106
camera surveillance, 83–84
landlord-tenant law, 23
public transportation, 77
rent control, 29
New York Weekly Journal, 192
Nixon, Richard, 215, 218
O
Obama administration, 12, 68, 236
obscenity restrictions, 45–47
O’Connor, Sandra Day, 20, 250
offense, 244–246
Olmstead v. United States (1928), 87–88
Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act, 127
organ transplants, 108–114
P
Paine, Thomas, 13, 53, 258
Common Sense, 7–12
Papachristou v. City of Jacksonville (1972), 189, 191
Patriot Act, 24, 48, 96–99, 169, 262
Paul, Rand, 62–63
Paul, Ron, 80, 201
End the Fed, 214
peace, right to enjoy, 159–175
Pearl Harbor, 161
Pennsylvania Coal v. Mahon (1922), 22
people, rights over their government, 141–145
permits, for using property, 24
petitions, judicial vs. legislative, 145–147
Pfizer, 19–21
Phelps, Fred, 37–38
Pilon, Roger, 57
Plessy v. Ferguson (1896), 58, 156, 188
police power, of federal government, 21
popular sovereignty, right to petition and, 142
Portnick, Jennifer, 51
positive freedom of association, 52
Positivism, xviii, xxxi–xxxiii, 74, 223
Constitution rejection of, xxx
power, localization of, 10
prison population, 241
privacy, right to, 83–101
private business, right to discriminate, 53–55
private property, 17, 19–20, 25–26
private sector, 75
probable cause, and property forfeiture, 22
procedural due process, 178
professional sports, gender-based discrimination, 57–58
progressive tax, 224–226
prohibitions, 105–106
Prokhorov, Mikhail, 17
property rights, xxv–xxvi, 17–35, 223
permits for use, 24
right to transfer, 27–29
rights included in ownership, 23–24
use determination, 4
prosperity, from war, 173–174
prostitution, 104–106
protective tariffs, 8
public debt, 233–236
public housing, 230
public necessity, 230–231
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railroads, government-subsidized, 77–78
Rand, Ayn, 5, 101
Ratner, Bruce, 17
reason, xix
redlining, 31
rehabilitation of criminals, 254
rent control, 29–30
Revenue Act of 1942, 170
Richardson, James O., 160
right to petition for redress of grievances, 139–157
duty of government to respond, 151–154
Rule 11 motions, 155–157
rights, 3–5
source of, xv–xxxiv
Roback, Jennifer, 59
Robinson, Jackie, 60
Roosevelt, Eleanor, 161
Roosevelt, Franklin, 74, 159, 167, 214
Rooseve
lt, Theodore, 212
Rothbard, Murray, 201, 213
The Ethics of Liberty, xxvi
Rothschild, Amschel, 205
Rule 11 motions, 155–157
Rule of Law, 57, 162
Rumsfeld, Donald, 175
S
sacrifice, 5
Saenz v. Roe (1999), 71
sales tax, 28, 229
same-sex marriages, 91–94
San Francisco, artificially sweetened drink ban, 106
Scalia, Antonin, 135
Schenck, Charles T., 42
Schulz, Robert, 153
science, laws of, xvii–xviii
search warrants. See National Security Letters
security, vs. liberty, 198–199
self-defense, 121–137
self-evident truths, xix–xx
self-preservation, xix
“separate but equal,” 58
September 11th 2001 attacks, 96, 148
Seven Bishops Case, 142–143
sex, payment for, 104–105
sexual freedom, 94–95
Shapiro v. Thompson (1969), 72
Siegel, Norman, 19
slavery, 6, 73
Smith, Norman B., 141
Snyder, Matthew, Phelps protest at funeral, 37
social compact, 257
social contract, taxation and, 226–228
social justice, 229
socialism, 223
sovereign immunity, 148–150
special interests, 11–13
The Spirit of ‘76 (film), 43
state. See also government
right to reject, 257–264
war as justification for, 163
states, constraints on, xxxi
Stimson, Henry L., 160
stock market crash of 1929, 214
Stossel, John, 116–117
Strayer, Joseph R., 141
stupidity, moral duty to disobey, 258–260
subsidiarity, xxiv
substantive due process, 178
Sutherland, George, 28–29
Switzerland, 131
T
Tabarrok, Alex, 112
Takings (Epstein), 25
Tauro, Joseph, 92, 93
Tax Relief and Health Care Act of 2006, 140
taxation, 221–237
evil of, 222–224
progressive tax, 224–226
social contract and, 226–228
Tea Party movement, 262
theft, 223
Thomas, Clarence, 20
torts, 251, 253
Transportation Security Administration (TSA), 67–68
travel
financial restrictions, 76–78
freedom to, 67–82
physical restrictions, 72–76
treasury bills, 216
tripartite nullification, 196
Tripartite Pact, 159
truisms, xx–xxi
Tucker, Gideon J., 6
Tuck-It-Away Associates, 19
tyranny, 198, 224
U
union security, 64
United Nations, Universal Declaration of Human Rights, 71–72
United States, intent to provoke attack by Japan, 160
United States Code, on terrorism, 49
U.S. Constitution, xxix, 121, 255
First Amendment, 38, 39
Second Amendment, 122–123, 127–128, 134–136
Third Amendment, 85–86
Fourth Amendment, 96, 98
Fifth Amendment, 22–23, 92, 178, 180
Ninth Amendment, xxx, 86
Tenth Amendment, 92
Thirteenth Amendment, 53, 73
Fourteenth Amendment, xxx, 125, 178, 180
Sixteenth Amendment, 222
Bill of Rights, xii, xxx, 39
Due Process Clause, 92
Equal Protection Clause, 58
guarantees, 85–86
Interstate Commerce Clause, 30, 34–35, 62, 71
Just Compensation Clause, 18, 21
on President as Commander in Chief, 166
and war, 162
U.S. Court of Appeals for Second Circuit in New York, 140
U.S. Defense Department, budget, 171–172
U.S. Government Printing Office, 241
United States v. Carolene Products (1938), 184–185, 186
University of Texas at Austin, 134
unreasonable search and seizure, 85
V
V for Vendetta, xxxiii
validity of laws, xvi, xxvii–xxviii
Vance, Laurence M., 56, 243
victimless crime, 242, 246–250
Vidal, Gore, 118
Vietnam War, 164–165
Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994, 128–129
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 133
von Mises, Ludwig, 173
W
Wagner Act, 63–64
waiver of rights, 179
Walker, Vaughn, 94
war, 159–175
and health of state, 161–163
motives, 161
perpetual, as new normalcy, 174
prosperity from, 173–174
War Finance Corporation, 169–170
War on Poverty, 218
War on Terror, 48, 96, 165, 174
Warren, Earl, 91
Warsaw Ghetto uprising, 124
We the People Foundation for Constitutional Education, 139
We the People v. United States, 139
wealth, creation, 173
Weinstein, Henry, 17
welfare programs, 230
White, Harry Dexter, 215
Wickard v. Filburn (1942), 30
William the Conqueror, 17–18
Williams, Walter E., 54–55, 66
Williamson v. Lee Optical (1955), 187–188
Wilson, Woodrow, 41, 212
wiretapping, 87
World War I, 164, 213
World War II, printing money to fund, 215
Wyoming Valley Massacre, 43
Z
Zenger, John Peter, 192–193, 195–196
About the Author
A graduate of Princeton University and the University of Notre Dame Law School, Judge Andrew P. Napolitano is the youngest life-tenured Superior Court judge in the history of the State of New Jersey. He sat on the bench from 1987 to 1995, when he presided over more than 150 jury trials and addressed thousands of motions, sentencings, and hearings. He taught constitutional law at Seton Hall Law School for eleven years, and he returned to private practice in 1995. Judge Napolitano began television work in the same year.
As the Senior Judicial Analyst for Fox News, Judge Napolitano broadcasts nationwide on the Fox News Channel (FNC) and the Fox Business Network (FBN) throughout the day, Monday through Friday. He hosts FreedomWatch on FBN on weekdays, and he is the one of the rotating hosts for The Five, weekdays on FNC.
Judge Napolitano is a nationally recognized lecturer on the U.S. Constitution, the rule of law, civil liberties in wartime, and human freedom. He has been published in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and numerous other publications. This book is his sixth on the U.S. Constitution.