Gary Lawson

All Publications by Gary Lawson
  • Backgrounder posted July 25, 2011 by Gary Lawson Reviving Formal Rulemaking: Openness and Accountability for Obamacare

    Abstract: The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) is not so much a set of norms to regulate conduct as an authorization to administrators to produce norms to regulate conduct. Implementation of the Act will require many years and literally thousands of administrative…

  • First Principles Series Report posted January 27, 2009 by Gary Lawson Limited Government, Unlimited Administration: Is it Possible to Restore Constitutionalism?

    When the Constitution was sent to the states for ratification in 1787, many citizens worried that the new national government proposed by the document was a Leviathan in waiting. During the crucial New York ratification debate, James Madison, writing as Publius, sought to allay these fears in the 45th Federalist Paper by emphasizing that…