Engadget. Owni.fr, digital journalism » Home » Harvard Magazine Jan-Feb 2000. Every age has its potential regulator, its threat to liberty.
Our founders feared a newly empowered federal government; the Constitution is written against that fear. John Stuart Mill worried about the regulation by social norms in nineteenth-century England; his book On Liberty is written against that regulation. Many of the progressives in the twentieth century worried about the injustices of the market. The reforms of the market, and the safety nets that surround it, were erected in response.