The immense pressures inflicted on the United States by the Great Depression of the 1930s forced the Supreme Court on several occasions to confront the scope of a state’s police
The sugar program persists for the simple reason that the benefits are concentrated in just a few hands, while the losses although far greater are so diffuse that the public is largely unaware of them.
Most Oregonians take Catholic schools for granted. But only a century ago, a majority of the state’s voters chose to outlaw private schooling altogether.