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Law, liberty & the limits of power.

Essays on competing rights, legal judgment and the institutions that hold power to account.

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This journal examines the principles behind law and government, the historical forces that formed them, and the economic choices that sustain them. Each essay begins with a question and follows the argument wherever the evidence leads.

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