pFrom the 700 billion bailout of the banking industry to president Barack Obama's 787 billion stimulus package to the highly controversial passage of federal health-care reform, conservatives and concerned citizens alike have grown increasingly fearful of big government. Enter Nobel Prize-winning economist and political theorist F. A. Hayek, whose passionate warning against empowering states with greater economic control, iThe Road to Serfdomi, became an overnight sensation last summer when it was endorsed by Glenn Beck. The book has since sold over 150,000 copies.p pThe latest entry in the University of Chicago Press's series of newly edited editions of Hayek's works, iThe Constitution of Libertyi is, like iSerfdomi, just as relevant to our present moment. The book is considered Hayek's classic statement on the ideals of freedom and liberty, ideals that he believes have guided-and must continue to guide-the growth of Western civilization. Here Hayek defends the principles of a free so