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The published edition of Liberty Defined: 50 Essential Issues That Affect Our Freedom by Ron Paul (Grand Central Publishing, 2011) lacks an index. This page is designed to provide for one.

INDEX

A

Abortion, 1-9

Alcohol prohibition, 225-230

Ali, Muhammad, 46-74

American Enterprise Institute (AEI), 209

American Medical Association (AMA), 192-197

Afghanistan, 42, 64, 93, 115-116, 131, 153, 240, 286, 320

Assange, Julian, 35, 36, 216

Assassination, 10-15

American citizen, 12, 13
Anwar-al-Awalaki, 14

Austrian Economics, 16-19, 24, 167, 206

Awlaki, Anwar al, 14

B

Bacon-Davis Act, 309

Bailouts, 25, 48, 91, 168, 201, 307, 308

Chrysler, 307, 308
General Motors, 306, 307
Wall Street and banks, 25, 130, 134, 158
well-connected, 48, 207

Bastiat, Federic, 17, 164

Begala, Paul, 112

Bernanke, Ben, 168

Bill of Rights, 14

Bipartisanship, 20-23

Blair, Dennis C., 12, 13, 14

Blockades, 298

Blowback, 95, 96, 307

Bush, George H. W. (President), 176

Bush, George W. (President), 83, 89, 108, 110, 254

Business Cycle, 24-27

counter cyclical policy failure, 26

C

CAFTA, 112, 297

Camp David Accords, 119

Campaign Finance, 28-31

Citizens United, 28
corporate speech, 29
McCain-Feingold Act, 28
taxpayer-financed elections, 30

Cap and Trade, 136

Capital Punishment, 32-36

federal death penalty, 32
government power to kill, 33
societal effects, 34

Carter, Jimmy (President), 119, 317

Census, 151, 273

Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), 37-43

assassination, 38
illegal funding, 86, 116
illegal financing, 39, 41
foreign elections influence, 38, 66
intelligence gathering, 38
Iran, 38, 41
regime change, 38, 85
rendition, 11, 38, 258, 292, 294
torture, 38, 291, 294
unrestrained efforts, 85

Cicero, 84, 98, 99

Civil Disobedience, 44-49

Martin Luther King, 45
Muhammad Ali, 46-48

Civil War, 261, 268, 269

Classical Liberalism, xii, 211

Cleland, Max, 89

Climate Change, 133

Cold War, xiii, 91, 239, 285

Conscription, 46, 50-55, 328

no Constitutional authority, 50, 54
Mohammad Ali, 46-48
Selective Service Act, 53

Constitution of the United States, 2, 38

Congress responsibility, 108, 113, 116, 117
executive powers, 108, 110-112, 114
federal crimes, three, 35
foreign trade, 112
general welfare clause, 109
individual rights protected, 66, 292
protects persons, 14
separation of powers, 108
state sovereignty, 266-269

Counterfeiting, 327

D

Debt, xv

Declaration of Independence, xi

Deficits, 91, 126, 168-170, 172, 176

Democracy, 63-72

democratic mandate, 65
spreading democracy, 64
vs. Republic, 65
victimizing minorities, 64

Demagogue, 56-63

Department of Homeland Security, 40, 157, 232

Director of National Intelligence, 12, 39

Discrimination, 73-77

making up for past injustice, 76
punish with social and economic disapproval, 75
reparations, 77

Dollar hegemony, xiv

Drug War, 94, 154, 226-228

Draft (see Conscription)

E

Education, 78

competition, 79
Department of Education, 80
home school, 79-82
monopoly control of indoctrination, 79
NEA, 81
no Constitutional authority, 78
no child left behind, 80
textbook controversy, 79
vouchers, 79

Eighteenth Amendment, 226

Egypt, 66

Enemy Combatant, 12, 278, 293

Envy, 101

Executive Power, 108

F

Foreign Trade

Congress responsibility, 298

Fiat dollar, 170

Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission, 206

Fisher, Louis, 116

FBI

group infiltration, 47

Federal Reserve, 25, 27, 115, 134, 199, 206, 274, 310

creation of Fed, 198
deficit spending,168, 169, 200
foreign aid, 120
monetary policy 198
secret financing, 86, 115-116, 120

First Amendment, 58, 123

campaign finance, 29

Foreign Aid, 57, 118-122, 319

Agency for International Development, 120
food aid, 119
International Monetary Fund, 120
World Bank

Fourth Amendment,

Government spying on citizens, 47

Fourth-Generation Warfare, 92

Flag burning, 218

G

Global Warming, 133-143

cap and trade, 136
skeptics, 133, 137
radical environmentalism, 133-137

General Motors, 306

Gold, 126, 198-201

Gold Standard, 167

Goldman Sachs, 69

Bail out, 308

Greenspan, Alan, 199

Gulf War, 176

H

Habeas Corpus, xv, 13, 115, 258, 291, 293

Hayek, F.A., 17, 202

Hazlitt, Henry, 17

Hussein, Saddam, 92

I

Illegal Aliens, 305

Immigration, 150-159

generous visitor work program, 154

Immigrants, 305

Import-Export Bank, 308

Individual, 327

Inflation, 114, 166-168, 199, 300, 311

inflation tax, 281-284
monetary inflation, 169-170, 274
medical costs, 193-194

Insurance, 160-165

Involuntary servitude (see conscription)

Iran, 38, 92-93

CIA overthrow, 38
nuclear weapon, 317
trade barriers, 296, 299
war with Iraq, 92

Iran-Contra, 85

Iraq, 89, 93, 298, 318

war with Iran, 92
sanctions, 240, 297, 320

Iraq War, 41, 46, 53, 66, 93, 115, 286, 296-297, 320

Islam

war with, 239

Israel, 297

nuclear weapons, 317

J

Jefferson, Thomas, xi, 106, 108

nullification, 268
states rights, 266


Jordan, 66

K

Keynes, John Maynard, 18

need for real wages to go down, 311
The General Theory, 166

Keynesianism, 18, 27, 166, 200-202

King, Martin Luther, 45, 48

Kristol, Irving, 209, 214-216

L

Leviathan state, xii, 261

Lewis, C.S., 164

Libertarian, xvii, 58, 151

Liberty, 88, 182, 324-325

definition, xi-xiii, xvii-xviii
conflict with government, xvii
liberty as moral right, 144
principles of liberty, 99
sacrificing liberty for security, 115, 126, 128, 131, 132, 165, 210, 224, 253, 258, 278,
war is the most dreaded enemy of liberty, 132

Locke, John, xii

Lobbyists, 179

Ludwig von Mises Institute, 18

M

Madison, James, 132

Majority Rule, 70

never use to undermine human rights, 70

Malthusian, 138

Marriage, 183

McKinley, William, 123

Medicaid, 189, 193, 196, 197

Medical Care, 187

Medicare, 189, 193, 196, 197

Menger, Carl, 16, 17

Mencken, Henry Louis, 61, 163

Militarism, 298

Minimum wage, 309

Moral Hazard, xvi, 203

Mises, Ludwig von, 17, 18, 19, 24, 135, 166, 264

business cycle, 24
Keynes analysis, 166

N

NEA, 81

NAFTA, 297

National Labor Relations Act, 301

Neoconservative,121, 209, 214-215, 243, 255

noble lie, 94, 212
philosophy, 214
war, 215
Cambone, Stephen, 214
Kristol, William, 214
Kristol, Irving, 214
Ledeen, Michael, 214
Shulsky, Abram, 214
Perle, Richard, 214
Podhoretz, John, 214
Straus, Leo, 214
Wolfowitz, Paul, 214

Nixon, President Richard, 303

Noble Lie, 94, 212-213

Nullification, 49, 267-272

O

P

Paterson, Isabel, 164

Patriot Act, 10, 40, 158, 219, 255-258, 278

Patriotism, 218

empires redefine, 91
last refuge of scoundrel, 219
willing to criticize one's own government, 89

Peak Oil, 143

Political Correctness, 148, 222

reflection of authoritarian society, 223
banning books, 224
thought police, 224

Prohibition, 225

alcohol, 225-230
Eighteenth Amendment, 225
drug war, 226

Public Land, 231-235

national parks, 233
Fifth Amendment, 234
land taken for public use, 235

Public Schools, 282

President's Working Group on Financial Markets, 116, 172

plunge protection team, 172

Progressive Era, 122

Property, 327

private property, xv, 58-60, 75, 233, 235, 244, 283

Protectionists, 298

R

Radical Environmentalism, 134

Rights, human, xv-xvii

Real ID, 158

Regime change, 12, 38, 92

Rendition, 11, 38, 258, 292, 294

Republic, 64, 90

Cicero legacy, 84, 98
vs Democracy, 65
transition to empire, 84

Robinson, Dr. Arthur B., 139

Roe v. Wade, 5-7

Roosevelt, Eleanor, 125

Roosevelt, Franklin D, 26, 113, 123, 167

four freedoms, 123

Roosevelt, Theodore, 123

Roman Republic, xv, 84-88, 98

Rothbard, Murray, 17

Ruby Ridge, 48

Rumsfeld, Donald, 307

S

Sanctions, 83, 240, 296-298, 320

Saudi Arabia, 66

Say, Jean-Baptiste, 17

Second Amendment, 144

Secret Prisons, 11, 13, 158, 258, 292

Skeptic, 133

Security, false sense of, xvi

Silver, 198-200

Sixteenth Amendment to Constitution, 280

Social Security, 161

Spontaneous order, xii

Spooner, Lysander, 70

Stark, Rodney (n.), xii

Statistics, 273

Strauss, Leo, 209, 213, 214

Surveillance, 277

traffic light cameras, 278

T

Taxes, 280, 283

Taliban, 93-94

Tea Party, 91, 181

Tenth Amendment, 57, 70, 109, 110, 228, 266, 267, 271

Term Limits, 179-180

Terrorism, 11, 94-97, 174, 285-288

attributable deaths in USA, 97
war on terrorism, 94-97

Thoreau, Henry David, 164

Torture, 10-13, 38, 88, 290-294

Trade Policies, 298

Turkey, 297

Tyranny, 13, 64, 107, 164, 210, 214

U

Unemployment, 305

statistics, 275

Unions, 301

NEA, 81

United Nations, 125

declaration of human rights, 125

V

Victimless Crimes, 67

Voluntary Association, 67, 74, 75

W

War, 132, 159, 175, 198, 199, 213, 221, 248, 328

against terrorism, 11
cold war, 174, 239
emergency war powers, 11
fourth-generation warfare, 92
manipulate public opinion, 212, 215
perpetual war, 9, 159, 162, 168
preventive war, 42, 57, 71, 91, 175, 176, 210, 243, 244
racism bread by war, 239
religious, 243, 248
south central asia, 140, 221
undeclared, 218, 223, 258
War Powers Resolution, 96, 111, 113
warfarism, 167, 170
worldside, 11

War on Drugs, 57, 94, 152-156

Wage and price controls, 113

Washington, George, 324

Wiesel, Elie 98

Wikileaks, xiii, 216

Wilson, Woodrow, 64, 123

conscription, 51

Wind Power, 135

World War I, 64, 123, 239

World War II, 239

WTO, 297

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