Purchasing Submission: Conditions, Power, and Freedom

by Philip Hamburger

From a leading constitutional scholar, an important study of a powerful mode of government control: the offer of money and other privileges to secure submission to unconstitutional power.

The federal government increasingly regulates by using money and other benefits to induce private parties and states to submit to its conditions. It thereby enjoys a formidable power, which sidesteps a wide range of constitutional and political limits...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674258231
• ISBN13: 9780674258235
• Release Date: September 2021
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 5.8" x 8.4"