The Death Of Common Sense
September, 1995
New York lawyer Philip Howard's simple, eloquent book The Death of Common Sense: How Law Is Suffocating America has sold more than 250,000 hardbound copies. In it. Howard attacks the bureaucratic monstrosity created by Washington--the almost 100 million words of law that tell us ''exactly what to do and how to do it.'' He describes how liberal politicians have tried to create a perfect society through precise regulation. The result, he argues, is paralysis, not paradise. Janitors can't change lo...
