… is from page 233 of economic historian Robert Higgs’s still-indispensable 1987 book, Crisis and Leviathan:
Thus the war [World War II] left the United States something far more ominous than big government, namely, Big Government in the sense of a powerful, highly arbitrary, activist government virtually unchecked by the constitutional limitations of checks and balances that had traditionally restrained the interventions if not the ambitions of government officials.
