The Senate did approve a modest restriction--a ban on the sale of the cheap, easily concealed pistols known as Saturday-night specials & 25 senators voted against even this small check on our most violent freedom.
"If we accept some modest restrictions on our power availability, we can go off-grid very quickly".
Not long before Goldsmith left, the Supreme Court approved in June 2004, in the Hamdi case, the detention power itself but put some modest restrictions on the administration's ability to detain citizens without trial.
In any event, a Supreme Court decision that finds the district's ordinance unconstitutional would not necessarily invalidate other, more modest restrictions, like those that permit handgun ownership for those who pass a background check and obtain a license.
Nationally, gun rights are popular, but so are modest restrictions on them, such as background checks to weed out criminals and crazy people, and waiting periods to allow angry people time to calm down.
The capital injections included modest restrictions on executive compensation, but the government remained a mostly silent partner, taking a seat on a company's board only for banks in serious distress.
Yet he said nothing about Wall Street pay or union-organizing, and barely mentioned gun control — something that he championed last year, after the elementary-school shooting in Newtown, Connecticut, by trying to push Congress to buck the gun lobby and pass modest restrictions.
Hardly a day goes by that a Republican politician does not throw facts to the wind and claim that rising costs at the pump are the result of President Obama's decisions to block the Keystone XL pipeline and impose sensible environmental regulations and modest restrictions on offshore drilling.
But then Mill might try to justify the modest restrictions on liberty necessary to provide the benefits of significant public goods by claiming that, even if these restrictions on liberty don't prevent harms, they do not restrict fundamental liberties and they do help secure other goods, such as education, security, and sanitation, that serve as necessary conditions of our happiness.
When banks accepted TARP money, they agreed to implement a few modest restrictions on executive pay, though none of the other bailouts came with any strings attached.
