Tocqueville's Nightmare
Download or Read eBook Tocqueville's Nightmare PDF written by Daniel R. Ernst and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2014 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Author | : Daniel R. Ernst |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 241 |
Release | : 2014 |
ISBN-10 | : 9780199920860 |
ISBN-13 | : 0199920869 |
Rating | : 4/5 (60 Downloads) |
Book Synopsis Tocqueville's Nightmare by : Daniel R. Ernst
Book excerpt: De Tocqueville once wrote that 'insufferable despotism' would prevail if America ever acquired a national administrative state. Between 1900 and 1940, radicals created vast bureaucracies that continue to trample on individual freedom. Ernst shows, to the contrary, that the nation's best corporate lawyers were among the creators of 'commission government'; that supporters were more interested in purging government of corruption than creating a socialist utopia; and that the principles of individual rights, limited government, and due process were designed into the administrative state.