Hong Kong is perhaps a singular example of the power for a free capitalist market in the world. Most of the world has crony capitalism, e.g. the U.S. as Judge Janice Rogers Brown argues has foregone protecting economic rights since the Supreme Court has "abdicated its constitutional duty to protect economic rights completely, acknowledging that the only recourse for aggrieved property owners lies in the 'democratic process'." [US Court of Appeals, District of Columbia Circuit, HETTINGA V. UNITED STATES, 677 F.3D 471 (D.C. CIR. 2012), decided 13 April 2012 http://goo.gl/yDmBV1]
"What an extraordinary statement: for protection against 'abuses'—not mistakes, misjudgments, or disagreements, but abuses—people must seek redress from the body that perpetrated those abuses in the in the first place." We are no longer living in a constitutional republic with healthy checks and balances on the power of the legislative." [Clark M. Neily III, Terms of Engagement—How Our Courts Should Enforce the Constitution's Promise of Limited Government, Encounter Books, NY, 2013, p. 105]
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