Liberty
Emergency Powers
Introduction The North Carolina Constitution declares that, “The legislative, executive, and supreme judicial powers of the State government shall be forever separate and distinct from each other,” and it assigns…
Government
system or group of people governing an organized community, often a state
Research Brief
Budget, Taxation & Economy
Empowering Oversight: Perspective on Oversight Commission’s New Powers
The North Carolina state budget, recently enacted, expanded the powers of the Joint Legislative Commission on Governmental Operations, a body that has been in existence since 1975. Expanding the Commission’s…
Research Brief
Law & Public Safety
Restoring the Separation of Powers in North Carolina
The North Carolina State Constitution unequivocally declares, “The legislative, executive, and supreme judicial powers shall be forever separate and distinct from each other.” Despite that declaration, North Carolinians are increasingly…
Freedom Focus
Freedom Focus
How Government Intervention Enables Racism, Discrimination
So-called “antiracists” typically advocate greater government intervention to combat racism. But such interventions can lower the cost paid by those discriminating. Government itself faces the lowest cost for discrimination, so…
Freedom Focus
Budget, Taxation & Economy
Big government crushes wealth creation, harms the poor
Increasing productivity is the key to wealth creation. Investment in capital goods and the division of labor are the key factors to rising productivity. Government hampers productivity through interventions like…
Budget, Taxation & Economy
Questions for Biden on the Minimum Wage
If government derives its authority from the “consent of the governed,” how can the governed consent powers to government that they – the governed – themselves don’t have?
Freedom Focus
Freedom Focus
Freedom, Transparency, and Good Government Require Keeping Regulations Under Control
In our state constitution, laws are made only by elected legislators accountable to the people. Regulations carry the force of laws but are made by bureaucrats in the executive branch…
Regulation
Crafting Laws vs. Making Rules
In North Carolina, laws are made by only one of the three branches of government: the General Assembly. It is important to know why the legislative branch has this exclusive power in…
Freedom Focus
Freedom Focus
How to Reply to the “Health Care and Housing Are Human Rights” Argument
Nothing that requires the labor of others is a right. Rights don't need to be rationed.
Liberty
Sick? Semper Tyrannus
Alarmingly, people in the world’s freest societies … have allowed totalitarian restrictions so long as they were euphemized as safety measures. Without the gloss, they include house arrest, dehumanizing dress codes,…
Liberty
Fear Stands as Fierce Foe of Freedom
Paul Krause writes for the American Thinker about the major threat fear poses to the future of freedom. Another new day, another new variant of the coronavirus, another new scare…
Freedom Focus
Freedom Focus
What Is the Intended Role of Government?
If we tell the government its principal role is to take care of us, there will be no end to the violation of rights.