Mining News: Federal overreach stymied by ScotusOnce again, the Army Corps of Engineers has its interpretation of the Clean Water Act scrutinized by courts and found wanting J. P. Tangen Special to Mining News “What good does it do me, after all, if an ever-watchful authority keeps an eye out to ensure that my pleasures will be tranquil and races ahead of me to ward off all danger, sparing me the need even to think about such things, if that authority, even as it removes the smallest thorns from my path, is also absolute master of my liberty and my life; if it monopolizes vitality and existence to such a degree that when it languishes, everything around it must also languish; when it sleeps, everything must also sleep; and when it dies, everything must also perish?”
—Alexis de Tocqueville (1835) In 1831, 26 year-old French lawyer Alexis de Tocqueville visited the United State [sic] of America for about 10 months and returned to his homeland to write the seminal “Democracy in America” wherein he described the experimental democratic republic for the benefit of his European peers. His masterp....
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