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The permission society : how the ruling class turns our freedoms into privileges and what we can do about it / Timothy Sandefur.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Sandefur, Timothy, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Liberty--United States.
- Liberty.
- Abuse of administrative power--United States.
- Abuse of administrative power.
- Political culture--United States.
- Political culture.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (281 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- New York, New York ; London, [England] : Encounter Books, 2016.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Throughout history, kings and emperors have promised "freedoms to their people. Yet these freedoms were really only permissions handed down from on high. The American Revolution inaugurated a new vision: people have basic rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, and government must ask permission from them. Sadly, todays increasingly bureaucratic society is beginning to turn back the clock and to transform America into a nation where our freedoms-the right to speak freely, to earn a living, to own a gun, to use private property, even the right to take medicine to save ones own life-are again treated as privileges the government may grant or withhold at will. Timothy Sandefur examines the history of the distinction between rights and privileges that played such an important role in the American experiment, and how we can fight to retain our freedoms against the growing power of government. Illustrated with dozens of real-life examples-including many cases he litigated himself-Sandefur shows how treating freedoms as government-created privileges undermines our Constitution and betrays the basic principles of human dignity.
- Contents:
- Charters of liberty granted by power
- The free society versus the permission society
- Prior restraint of speech
- Economics and prior restraint
- The competitor's veto
- The right to use private property
- Guns, drugs, and sex
- The future of permission.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9781594038402
- 1594038406
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