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17. Ibid., 15.
18. Herbert J. Storing, ed., The Complete Anti-Federalist, vol. 1, ch. 4, doc. 16 (Cato, no. 3) (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1981).
19. Madison, Hamilton, and Jay, The Federalist Papers.
20. Ibid.
21. Ibid.
22. Ibid.
23. Ibid.
24. U.S. Constitution, Tenth Amendment. Compare with Articles of Confederation, Article II: “Each state retains its sovereignty, freedom, and independence, and every power, jurisdiction, and right, which is not by this Confederation expressly delegated to the United States in Congress assembled.”
25. U.S. Constitution, Ninth Amendment.
26. Kurt T. Lash, “The Lost Original Meaning of the Ninth Amendment,” 83 Texas Law Review 331, 392 (2004).
27. Ibid., quoting James Madison, Writings, Jack N. Rakove, ed. (New York: Library of America, 1999), 489.
28. Ibid., quoting Gazette of the United States (Philadelphia), Feb. 23, 1791, reprinted in Documentary History of the First Federal Congress, 1789–1791, William Charles diGiacomantonio et al., eds., vol. 14 (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996), 367.
29. James Madison, Notes of Debates in the Federal Convention of 1787 (Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, 1985), 7.
10. ALEXIS DE TOCQUEVILLE AND DEMOCRACY IN AMERICA
1. Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America, vol. I (New York: Knopf, 1994), 46. Subsequent references to this work will be to (Volume, Page).
11. POST-CONSTITUTIONAL AMERICA
1. Christopher Collier and James Lincoln Collier, Decision in Philadelphia: The Constitutional Convention of 1787 (New York: Ballantine, 2007), 250.
2. James Madison, Alexander Hamilton, and John Jay, The Federalist Papers (New York: Penguin, 1987).
3. Ibid.
4. Woodrow Wilson, Constitutional Government in the United States (New York: Columbia University Press, 1908), 16.
5. Ibid., 4–5.
6. Ibid., 54.
7. Ibid., 56.
8. Ibid., 56–57.
9. Ibid., 70.
10. Ibid., 167.
11. Ibid., 167–68.
12. Ibid., 172.
13. Ibid., 193.
14. Ibid., 178.
15. Ibid.
16. Ibid., 189.
17. Ibid., 192.
18. Franklin D. Roosevelt, Whither Bound? (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1926), 14–16.
19. Ibid., 19–20.
20. Levin, Liberty and Tyranny.
21. Franklin D. Roosevelt, “State of the Union Message to Congress,” Jan. 11, 1944, http://www.fdrlibrary.marist.edu/archives/address_text.html (July 14, 2011).
22. Ibid.
23. Ibid.
24. Cass R. Sunstein, The Second Bill of Rights: FDR’s Unfinished Revolution and Why We Need It More than Ever (New York: Basic Books, 2004), 232–33.
25. Ibid., 234.
26. 1936 Constitution of the USSR, http://www.departments.bucknell.edu/russian/const/36cons04.html#chap10 (July 14, 2011).
27. Whittaker Chambers, Witness (Washington, D.C.: Gateway, 2002), 472.
28. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_cqN4NIEtOY (July 14, 2011).
12. AMERITOPIA
1. F. A. Hayek, The Fatal Conceit: The Errors of Socialism, W. W. Bartley III, ed. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1991), 14.
2. Kyle Mundry, “Individual Income Tax Rates and Shares,” Internal Revenue Service, 2008, IRS Bulletin http://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-soi/11intr08winbul.pdf (July 17, 2011), 31.
3. “Historical Tables, Budget of the U.S. Government, Fiscal Year 2011,” U.S. Government Printing Office, http://www.gpoaccess.gov/usbudget/fy11/pdf/hist.pdf (July 17, 2011).
4. “The Moment of Truth,” National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform, http://www.fiscalcommission.gov/sites/fiscalcommission.gov/files/documents/TheMomentofTruth12_1_2010.pdf (July 17, 2011).
5. “CBO’s 2011 Long-Term Budget Outlook,” CBO REPORT, Congressional Budget Office, June 2011.
6. National Commission, “The Moment of Truth.”
7. CBO 2011 Long-Term Budget Outlook.
8. Dennis Cauchon, “U.S. funding for future promises lags by trillions,” USA Today, June 6, 2011, http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2011–06–06–us-owes-62–trillion-in-debt_n.htm (July 18, 2011).
9. Ibid.
10. Dennis Cauchon, “Federal workers earning double their private counterparts,” USA Today, Aug. 13, 2010, http://www.usatoday.com/money/economy/income/2010–08–10–1Afedpay10_ST_N.htm (July 14, 2011).
11. Iain Murray,