[CTRL] Federal Government Growth Before the New Deal

1999-09-11 Thread M.A. Johnson
-Caveat Lector- Federal Government Growth Before the New Deal by Randall G. Holcombe Popular opinion holds that most of the credit (or blame) for the incredible growth of the federal government should go to President Franklin D. Roosevelt and his New Deal. While Roosevelt certainly was a

Re: [CTRL] Federal Government Growth Before the New Deal

1999-09-11 Thread Bill
-Caveat Lector- The American Civil War was about consolidating federal power by eroding states rightshistory has been written by the winners of warLincoln undid everything Jackson did by kicking the bankers outthey came back with a vengeance, big players in the Civil War, and began