Source: Law & Liberty
by John Berlau
“One of the great threats to freedom in the United States today is what we at the Competitive Enterprise Institute call ‘Regulation Without Representation.’ Increasingly, laws are effectively made by unelected regulatory agencies in the administrative state instead of the people’s representatives in Congress. The phrase ‘regulation without representation’ also connotes the battle that George Washington and other American patriots fought against taxation without representation. But in researching my book George Washington, Entrepreneur, I found that ‘regulation without representation’ is more than just linguistically connected to the causes of the Revolutionary War. It was an actual grievance of the colonists that was almost as important as taxation in turning George Washington and other patriots against the rule of Great Britain.” (03/20/25)