Re: Punishment

Alan Barksdale (lists@alan.b30.ingr.com)
Fri, 13 Mar 98 18:57:27 CST


> In short, having punishments that are so severe that nobody wants to
> enforce them is nearly as bad as no punishment at all. As is

Sometime Extropian list participant David D. Friedman reached different
conclusions in

http://www.best.com/~ddfr/Academic/England_18thc./England_18thc.html

which is approximately equal to

"Making Sense of English Law Enforcement in the Eighteenth Century,"
_The_University_of_Chicago_Law_School_Roundtable_ (Spring/Summer 1995)
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It took about 150 years, starting with a Bill of Rights that reserved to the
states and the people all powers not explicitly delegated to the federal
government, to produce a Supreme Court willing to rule that growing corn to
feed to your own hogs is interstate commerce and can therefore be regulated by
Congress. --- David D. Friedman, _The_Machinery_of_Freedom_

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