Jefferson Decker, "The Other Rights Revolution: Conservative Lawyers and the Remaking of American Government "
English | ISBN: 0190467304 | 2016 | 298 pages | PDF | 6 MB
English | ISBN: 0190467304 | 2016 | 298 pages | PDF | 6 MB
In 1973, a group of California lawyers formed a non-profit, public-interest legal foundation dedicated to defending conservative principles in court. Calling themselves the Pacific Legal Foundation, they declared war on the U.S. regulatory state–the sets of rules, legal precedents, and bureaucratic processes that govern the way Americans do business. Believing that the growing size and complexity of government regulations threatened U.S. economy and infringed on property rights, Pacific Legal Foundation began to file a series of lawsuits challenging the government's power to plan the use of private land or protect environmental qualities. By the end of the decade, they had been joined in this effort by spin-off legal foundations across the country.
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