The Founding Fathers thought long and hard about the proper role of government in our lives, and they set forth their thoughts in a document that explicitly numerates the powers of the federal government. To restore truly limited government, therefore, we must do more than define issues as political or budgetary. We must go to the heart of the matter and raise the underlying constitutional questions. In a word, we must ask the most fundamental question of all: Does the government have the authority, the constitutional authority, to do what it is doing?

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Commentary

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By Gene Healy. DC Examiner. April 30, 2013.

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By Richard W. Rahn. Washington Times. April 30, 2013.

Budget Problems Continue in Washington

By Tad DeHaven. TownHall.com. April 1, 2013.

Cato Studies

Libertarian Roots of the Tea Party

By David Kirby and Emily McClintock Ekins. Policy Analysis No. 705. August 6, 2012.

The Independent Payment Advisory Board: PPACA’s Anti-Constitutional and Authoritarian Super-Legislature

By Diane Cohen and Michael F. Cannon. Policy Analysis No. 700. June 14, 2012.

Herbert Hoover: Father of the New Deal

By Steven Horwitz. Briefing Paper No. 122. September 29, 2011.

Articles

The Case Against the Fiscal Stimulus

Jeffrey A. Miron. Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy. Vol. 33. No. 2. Spring 2010.

Why Freedom Matters

James A. Dorn. Freeman. July, 2005.

Public Filings

Addressing Transparency in the Federal Bureaucracy: Moving toward a More Open Government

By Jim Harper. Testimony. March 13, 2013.

City of Arlington v. FCC

By Ilya Shapiro, Nicholas Quinn Rosenkranz, Trevor Burrus & Mac Stone. Legal Briefs. November 26, 2012.

PPL Corp. v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue

By Ilya Shapiro and Matt Gilliam. Legal Briefs. August 10, 2012.

Reviews & Journals

Cato Papers on Public Policy: Second Annual Volume

Policy Report. March/April 2013.

James M. Buchanan, RIP

Policy Report. March/April 2013.

Saving the Soul of Classical Liberalism

James M. Buchanan (1919 - 2013). Policy Report. March/April 2013.

Events

Reclaiming Freedom: The Case for Libertarian Ideas in Mainstream Politics

Featuring David Boaz. February 16, 2013. Student Forum.

Conscious Capitalism: Liberating the Heroic Spirit of Business

Featuring Tucker Carlson. February 4, 2013. Book Forum.

The Libertarian State of the Union

Featuring David Boaz, Alex Nowrasteh, Ilya Shapiro & Michael D. Tanner. January 29, 2013. Capitol Hill Briefing.

Downsizing the Federal Government

Airports and Air Traffic Control

By Chris Edwards and Robert W. Poole Jr.. June 2010.

Airports and Air Traffic Control

By Chris Edwards and Robert W. Poole Jr.. June 2010.

Fiscal Federalism

By Chris Edwards. February 2009.