Oligarchies, Monopolies, and the Constitution
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Is the Anti-Oligarchy Constitution Lost?
The anti trust law was viewed by progressives century ago as a constitutionally central project that you needed to break up these large concentrations of private power and wealth if we were going to preserve a republic. Joe adams makes a strong point that louis brandeis opposed the curse of bigness in business as well as in government. The way that the system of american capitalism has changed since a century ago, i think looks raises many alarms for proponents of the tradition.
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