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- Title: Judicial Independence, Judicial Virtue, And the Political Economy of the Constitution (Annual Federalist Society National Student Symposium)
- Author : Harvard Journal of Law&Public Policy
- Release Date : January 01, 2012
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 296 KB
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Economic theory applies to many things besides the commercial marketplace. Whether, or to what extent, the Framers constitutionalized an economic theory of private property and free enterprise, they certainly did employ an economic theory of government. James Madison famously summarized that theory in The Federalist: And how can the government be obliged to control itself? Again, Madison offered a succinct theoretical answer: "Ambition must be made to counteract ambition." (2)