Good afternoon and welcome to the Cato Institute. Im the director of the center for constitutional studies and your host for this event. I want also to welcome the cspan audience and those of us those who are looking at the event on cato Live Streaming in the archives. We are here to discuss religious liberty as it may or may not be exercised in the context of the modern Business Corporation pursuant to statutory and constitutional law. More immediately, we are here also to mark the publication of the new book on the subject from religious liberties for corporations and i note the title ends with a question. In the the book our two main speakers today, ilya shapior and david gans discuss hobby lobby and the blockbuster decision of the Supreme Court handed down at the end of its last term which rejected the obamacare regulations that provide employers sponsored healthcare plans to provide, which required employersponsored healthcare plans to provide free contraceptive coverage. Its base
The people who get in government think that they can centrally plan the economy as it the economy or set society was like a chessboard that the government can manipulate. That is the problem with the Big Government. So i dont think i think jays critique is the hamiltonian or henry clay kind of Big Government system perhaps could have worked in washington if we changed the institutions in washington over the decades. I dont think thats right. I think the government failed because it tries to centrally plan. A second point and maybe this is more, i thought it was interesting more bit of an agreement with j. Is that the master and the of checks and balances and that factions and extend republic our each other to the broader public good medicine and fairly, jay can correct me if im wrong, didnt see logrolling. Its a central and crucial problem in government and jay goes into this in some detail. Back to the 19th century logrolling was a huge problem with various programs. I think a discuss
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