Jim Powell, a senior fellow at the Cato Institute, explains how William Gladstone in the U.K. and Warren Harding in the U.S. got it done: by keeping the functions of the state to a minimum.

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And the question is this: Many of the legislative functions of the federal government right now are in a state of paralysis as a result of partisan gridlock.

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