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and then they turn around and say regulate it.  I think

they're being disingenuous."  Quoted in Joe Salkowski,

"Betting on the Horses," April 15, 1998, <http://dispatches.

azstarnet.com/features/1998/0415.htm>.

67. An example of how gambling regulators must adapt to

market conditions is given by Rosecrance: "Although both

Nevada and Atlantic City adopted stringent restrictions to

keep illegal operators from being licensed, regulations

were relaxed when it appeared that former bookies and

illicit casino managers were the only ones capable of run-

ning a profitable gaming operation" (p. 165).

68. "[T]he state is well-positioned [with regard to

Internet gambling] to take a piece of the action as a

trusted certifying authority, reassuring consumers that

activities are conducted honestly."  Post, p. 4.  That by

no means justifies a state monopoly, however.  "There is

no necessary reason that the state has to supply this cer-

tification--why couldn't Microsoft? or Citibank?"  Ibid.

69. See generally Richard A. Epstein, Simple Rules for a

Complex World (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press,

1995); Friedrich A. Hayek, Law, Legislation and Liberty,

vol. 1 (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1973); and

Friedrich A. Hayek, The Road to Serfdom (Chicago:

University of Chicago Press, 1944), pp. 72-87.

70. Stephen Longstreet, Win or Lose: A Social History of

Gambling in America (Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1977),

p. 31.

71. Ibid., p. 37.

72. Thomas Jefferson, The Writings of Thomas Jefferson,

ed. Andrew A. Lipscomb (Washington: Thomas Jefferson

Memorial Association, 1903), vol. 17, p. 450.

73. William N. Thompson, Legalized Gambling: A Reference

Handbook (Santa Barbara, Calif.: ABC-CLIO, 1994), p. 64.

74. Longstreet, p. 31.

75. John Samuel Ezell, Fortune's Merry Wheel: The Lottery

in America (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press,

1960), p. 272.

76. Ibid., p. 108.

77. Ibid., p. 102.