Why We Should Repeal the Civil Rights Act

In his 1995 article titled “Repeal ’64,” Lew Rockwell argued against extending the Civil Rights Act 1964 to new areas of application, on the basis that, “Bad law should be repealed, not extended.” His primary objection to expanding civil rights protection to the new groups of victims that emerge daily was that the civil rights regime is incompatible with basic individual liberties such as freedom of association, freedom of contract, and freedom of expression. This was indeed why Charlie Kirk - an astute observer of contemporary politics - argued that passing the civil rights law was a mistake...

Far from constraining the growth of tyrannical government, the civil rights regime serves as a justification for increasing the size of government ostensibly to give it enough power and capability to enforce civil rights...

The Constitution does not defend the citizen from civil rights tyranny...

... progressives are never concerned about anything that stands in the way of what they view as social progress. They see no problem with unlimited federal power because they believe their good intentions justify anything they may see as a good social policy....