The mechanisms of the slippery slope
Harvard Law Review, vol. 116, no. 4, 2003, pp. 1026–1137
Abstract
In other countries [than the American colonies], the people .. . judge of an ill principle in government only by an actual grievance; here they antici- pate the evil, and judge of the pressure of the grievance by the badness of the principle. They augur misgovernment at a distance and snuff the ap- proach of tyranny in every tainted breeze. -
