Suggested Readings: Liberty

The Rule of Law in the Wake of Clinton
Edited by Roger Pilon
ISBN: 1-930865-03-1

"The rule of law is no pious phrase from a civics textbook. It is what stands between us and the arbitrary exercise of power by the state. It is the safeguard of our liberties. Once, that was broadly understood in our land. If that understanding is lost, or if it becomes seriously eroded, the American democratic experiment and the freedom it guarantees are in jeopardy. The contribution made by this book to our understanding of those important lessons is crucial for American democracy at the dawn of the twenty-first century." —Henry J. Hyde chairman, House Judiciary Committee

You Can't Say That: The Growing Threat to Civil Liberties from Antidiscrimination Laws
By David E. Bernstein
ISBN: 1-930865-53-8

"The tension between antidiscrimination laws and civil liberties, such as free expression, privacy, and personal autonomy, is one of the most important and least explored challenges to individual freedom of our age. In this impassioned book, David Bernstein makes the libertarian case for vigorously defending freedom against the demands of legalized egalitarianism." —Jeffrey Rosen legal affairs editor, The New Republic

Cato Supreme Court Review: 2003-2004
Edited by Mark K. Moller
ISBN: 1-930865-58-9

"The editors believe that the Constitution is not a technical document of interest only to lawyers and judges. Rather, we aim to bring together top-flight contributors to analyze the term in a manner that will make the Court's work accessible, insofar as possible, to a diverse audience. . . . [But] the Cato Supreme Court Review has a distinctive point of view, which we happily confess: The Review analyzes the Court and its decisions from a classical Madisonian perspective." —Editor's "Introduction"

Restoring the Lost Constitution: The Presumption of Liberty
By Randy E. Barnett
ISBN: 0-691-11585-0

"This is an important book, one that everybody in the field will (or should) take account of. Randy Barnett puts forward a comprehensive, thoughtful, clear, concise, challenging, and historically plausible version of American Constitutionalism. He pulls together a tremendous amount of material, including some of the best recent revisionist scholarship on constitutional history, and sets this in a framework of great integrity and unity of vision." —Michael Zuckert, author of Launching Liberalism: On Lockean Political Philosophy