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September 15, 2011
A full day analysis of the Supreme Court's 2010 and 2011 terms.
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"The Hayek Surge Continues"
by David Boaz
"Is Obama Worse Than Carter and Bush?"
by David Boaz
"11th Circuit Finds ObamaCare’s Individual Mandate Unconstitutional"
by Michael F. Cannon
Individual Mandate Is Unconstitutional
The 11th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals on Friday found that the "individual mandate" section of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, which requires all Americans to purchase health insurance by 2014 or face penalties, "exceeds Congress's enumerated commerce power and is unconstitutional." Comments Cato scholar Ilya Shapiro, "Today is a great day for liberty. [The] decision gives hope to those who believe that there are some things beyond the government's reach and that the judiciary cannot abdicate its duty to hold Congress's feet to the constitutional fire."
- "In Obamacare Case, Constitution Is Victor," by Ilya Shapiro
- "The Case Against President Obama's Health Care Reform: A Primer for Nonlawyers," by Robert A. Levy
Forty Years in Defense of Liberty
The Cato Institute is pleased to wish a Happy 40th Birthday to the Universidad Francisco Marroquín, in Guatemala, the world's only free market university. Businessman Manuel Francisco Ayau Cordon founded the school in 1971 to counter what he considered the "socialist instruction" being imparted at San Carlos University of Guatemala, the nation's largest institution of higher learning. Felicidades UFM!
Terminating the Small Business Administration
Small Business Administration (SBA) supporters have cultivated a myth that being against the agency is equivalent to being against small businesses. In reality, the SBA's lending programs benefit a relatively tiny number of businesses at the expense of taxpayers and the vast majority of businesses that do not receive government support. In a new essay, Cato scholars Veronique de Rugy and Tad DeHaven argue that the SBA is an unneeded agency that should be terminated to reduce the deficit and end business favoritism.
- "Terminating the Small Business Administration," by Veronique de Rugy and Tad DeHaven
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