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"The First Amendment, well how quaint!"

Damon Root | 11.12.2010 4:59 PM

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Here's a fun and sadly all too accurate video from the Institute for Justice highlighting the explosive growth of occupational licensing and the economic damage it has done:

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Damon Root is a senior editor at Reason and the author of three books, including A Glorious Liberty: Frederick Douglass and the Fight for an Antislavery Constitution (Potomac Books). His latest book is Emancipation War: The Fall of Slavery and the Coming of the Thirteenth Amendment (Potomac Books).

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