Individuals have rights. Government has no rights, only powers. Tyler Cowen asserts that, most of the time, governments do not have the right to tell us what to do. He wants unpasteurized cheese (and so do I).
Two books:
Big Babies, or Why Can't We Just Grow Up by Michael Bywater
Nanny State: How Food Fascists, Teetotaling Do-Gooders, Priggish Moralists, and other Bonehead Bureaucrats are Turning America into a Nation of Children by David Harsanyi