We may not like all the power the government is accruing, but most of it is necessary. Who is going to reopen the economy?
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April 17, 2020
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Balancing Emergency Powers and Coercive Control ([link removed] )
Just because significant restrictions on our day‐to‐day lives are warranted doesn’t mean it’s a free‐for‐all for government coercion.
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