Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2018
Abstract
Administrative power is the greatest threat to civil liberties in our era. Traditionally, the most systematic threats to civil liberties came in attacks on particular groups, and this remains a problem. But increasingly, there are also broader threats, which affect the civil liberties of all Americans, and administrative power is the primary example of this broad sort of danger. No single development in our legal system deprives more Americans of more constitutional rights. It is therefore not an exaggeration to say that it is our greatest threat to civil liberties.
Disciplines
Administrative Law | Law
Recommended Citation
Philip A. Hamburger,
The Administrative Threat to Civil Liberties,
2017-2018
Cato Sup. Ct. Rev.
15
(2018).
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