The Supreme Court

The necessity to control the citizenry pervades every aspect of our civil government.  This is no different in the case of the nine judges that give a stamp of approval to all sorts of activity that lie clearly beyond the bounds of the Constitution.  This article from the Mises Economics Blog does a great job in highlighting how the Court, just as much as any individual politician, has a vested interest in consolidating the power of the civil government and maintaining its own prestige at the expense of sound decisions and the rights of individual citizens.