Download or read book The United States Constitution Revisited written by J. Jackson Owensby and published by a-argus books. This book was released on 2011-02 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book America s Counter Revolution written by Sheldon Richman and published by . This book was released on 2016-04-06 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book challenges the assumption that the Constitution was a landmark in the struggle for liberty. Instead, Sheldon Richman argues, it was the product of a counter-revolution, a setback for the radicalism represented by America's break with the British empire. Drawing on careful, credible historical scholarship and contemporary political analysis, Richman suggests that this counter-revolution was the work of conservatives who sought a nation of "power, consequence, and grandeur." America's Counter-Revolution makes a persuasive case that the Constitution was a victory not for liberty but for the agendas and interests of a militaristic, aristocratic, privilege-seeking ruling class. The Anti-Federalists were right: The pursuit of "national greatness" inevitably diminishes liberty and centralizes government. The U.S. Constitution did both, as Sheldon Richman demonstrates in this powerfully argued anarchist case against the blueprint for empire known as the U.S. Constitution. --Bill Kauffman, author, Forgotten Founder, Drunken Prophet: The Life of Luther Martin The libertarian movement has long suffered from a constitutional fetishism that embraces an ahistorical reverence for the U.S. Constitution. Far too many are unaware of the extent to which the framing and adoption of the Constitution was in fact a setback for the cause of liberty. Sheldon Richman, in a compilation of readable, well researched, and compelling essays, exposes the historical, theoretical, and strategic errors in the widespread reification of a purely political document. With no single correct interpretation, the Constitution has been predictably unable to halt the growth of the modern welfare-warfare American State. I urge all proponents of a free society to give his book their diligent attention. --Jeffrey Rogers Hummel, Professor, San Jose State University; author, Emancipating Slaves, Enslaving Free Men: A History of the American Civil War "No state or government can limit itself through a written constitution, no matter how fine the words or how noble the sentiments they express. It is one of the many virtues of Sheldon Richman's book that it shows how this is true even of the American Constitution, which despite the promises of its designers and the insistence of its defenders down the years, made limited government less and not more likely." --Chandran Kukathas, London School of Economics "Richman delivers an accessible, incisive, and well-grounded argument that the Constitution centralized power and undid some of the Revolution's liberating gains. He rebuts patriotic platitudes but avoids the crude contrarianism so common in libertarian revisionism written for popular consumption. He does not romanticize America's past or overstate his case. Radical and nuanced, deferential to freedom and historical truth, Richman rises above hagiography or demonization of either the Federalists or anti-Federalists to produce an unsurpassed libertarian exploration of the subject." - Anthony Gregory, Independent Institute "[A]fter reading this book, you will never think about the U.S. Constitution and America's founding the same way again. Sheldon Richman's revealing and remarkably well-argued narrative will permanently change your outlook. . . . Richman . . . [is] one of this country's most treasured thinkers and writers . . . . [H]e draws on the most contemporary and important scholarly research, while putting the evidence in prose that is accessible and compelling." - Jeffrey A. Tucker, Liberty.me and Foundation for Economic Education
Download or read book Beyond Light and Transient Causes written by Frank Cochran Nugent and published by . This book was released on 2023-05-30 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Constitution...revisited Fellow citizens, the chimes of time echo revolution! The frustrated voices of Adams, Paine, Washington, Jefferson, Madison, Franklin, et al. cry out for change! Millions of graves from Bunker Hill to Iwo Jima demand it. Our Constitution, once the bible of free men, must now be resurrected on the blood of tyrants. Those lifetime-tenured November criminals, those Marxist apostles of greed and socialism spawned by the New Deal, the Great Society, and today's cabal of political czars have rendered the ballot box and our present Constitution less than worthless; but before they come after our firearms, we must vote with flint, ball, and gunpowder. If we hope to remain free, we must let the rattle of musketry be heard by those unindicted coconspirators inside the Beltway. No need for another Continental Army; with designated targets of opportunity, a strategic liquidation here and there will surely tip the scale in our favor. America, God's hallowed ground, must again be drenched with despotic blood. Capitol Hill must become another Bunker Hill. Minutemen, Sons of Liberty, volunteers, and hired liquidators, over three hundred million subjects await our making them free American citizens again. But all aforementioned carnage will be avoided if two-thirds of both houses of Congress and threefourths of the states ratify the amendments detailed in this book. This book will prepare the reader to see into the minds of the Founding Fathers and examine their original intent, confirming that America is not a democracy, as many uninformed politicians claim, but a constitutional republic.
Download or read book The U S Constitution Revisited and Revised written by Carlos Zamorano and published by . This book was released on 2023-09-28 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mr. Zamorano hits hard on issues that plague our society today. He has lived through each of the issues described in the book and has come up with suggestions to correct the inequities that pervade this country. He does not take sides and hits each issue head on. He takes a close look at the crime that has increased in frequency and severity and is rampant across the country. He addresses the reasons why it has increased with suggestions to correct it. He assigns responsibility to the police for overreach when thought to be necessary but also assigns responsibility to the parents of teenagers who commit crimes and suggests payment for their retribution. What a novel idea! We will see how long it takes parents to pay strict attention to the social conduct of their out-of-control children when they are hit with restitution for damages made by them He looks at issues that are very sensitive like abortion and takes a stand for each side of the issue. There are no politics involved in the solutions made and he is respectful of each side. Of course, someone is going to read this section in the book and, regardless of the suggestions, he or she is going to have his or her own ideas of the issue that may conflict with the author's. Because the author is a military retiree, he is involved with veteran issues that should have been corrected long ago. In many instances, military, who are injured while performing combat situations and must be hospitalized, are entitled to disability pay. When it is a military retiree, he also receives compensation, however, when he is receiving retired pay along with disability, he is required to have his retiree pay diminished dollar for dollar to compensate for his disability pay. In other words, he winds up paying for the injury resulting from a combat situation or is service connected. Mr. Zamorano has written several letters to congressmen and to the president concerning this issue. He has never received an answer to any of his letters. The Democrats continue to defend the policies that have turned this country in the past two years into a smoldering, angry and divided country. America has a history of division. We have endured deep divisions between its political parties, with over industrialization; suffering a civil war; allowing illegal immigration; civil rights and anti-war protests in the 1960s, gay rights, abortion and numerous other battles that plague this country. The author cannot reconcile hypocrisy by the government that projects one version of the truth to the world when it knows the projection is false. Let's take the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier located in Arlington National Cemetery in Washington, D.C. Some brilliant political mind determined that it would be a good idea to construct a building, place the remains of an unknown soldier and provide military security to that structure on a 24 hour basis. Have video cameras to document to the world America's sense of honor and respect it has for its fallen soldiers. Project that image to the world. To that end, the United States Army provides sentinels to protect the tomb, changing of the guards every 30 minutes, twenty four hours a day, three hundred an sixty-five days, come rain or shine. Video cameras record the pomp and circumstance; the cameras panning out to the tourists viewing the ceremony. That is the image that we want to world to see and give the sense of our commitment to our military. Nothing can be further from the truth. We desperately need change in this country or we are on our way to becoming a third world country. We cannot let that happen. The author is making a plea in this book to readers to wake up and take a stand for this great nation.
Download or read book So Reason Can Rule written by Scott Buchanan and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Faultless Imperfection written by James Oshust and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-02-24 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Putting our Constitution back where it belongs: into the hearts and minds of all Americans, and in the classroom. A citizen's view of a revered document Since its inception, the United States Constitution has been the subject of millions of pages of opinion, interpretation and academic punditry. "The Faultless Imperfection" attempts to present the entirety of the prefacing articles, the original document's wording and its later amendments. In each section, specific references and individual allowances or prohibitions are discussed - from an average citizen's viewpoint - without the semantic soliloquies so apparent in all those past tomes produced by those who either seek to restate or reduce this cherished document's content. To add fuel to the dying embers of understanding of the Constitution by our younger generation, the addition of numerous suggestions and possible revised language is discussed. More importantly delineated is the emphasis on the need to become reasonably familiar with this instrument of our founding. The work is intended for John/Jane Q. Public and hopefully their children. As their parents become aware of the paucity of any formal education on the subject - once a required study in schools which has gone the way of other subjects considered either irrelevant in today's highly mobile society, or discarded as a necessary loss to make way for instruction in the modern, more liberally oriented curriculum - maybe they/we will be motivated to spearhead a return to a study of The Faultless Imperfection of the Constitution of the United States in our minds and in our schools.
Download or read book Democracy and Distrust written by John Hart Ely and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1981-08-15 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This powerfully argued appraisal of judicial review may change the face of American law. Written for layman and scholar alike, the book addresses one of the most important issues facing Americans today: within what guidelines shall the Supreme Court apply the strictures of the Constitution to the complexities of modern life? Until now legal experts have proposed two basic approaches to the Constitution. The first, “interpretivism,” maintains that we should stick as closely as possible to what is explicit in the document itself. The second, predominant in recent academic theorizing, argues that the courts should be guided by what they see as the fundamental values of American society. John Hart Ely demonstrates that both of these approaches are inherently incomplete and inadequate. Democracy and Distrust sets forth a new and persuasive basis for determining the role of the Supreme Court today. Ely’s proposal is centered on the view that the Court should devote itself to assuring majority governance while protecting minority rights. “The Constitution,” he writes, “has proceeded from the sensible assumption that an effective majority will not unreasonably threaten its own rights, and has sought to assure that such a majority not systematically treat others less well than it treats itself. It has done so by structuring decision processes at all levels in an attempt to ensure, first, that everyone’s interests will be represented when decisions are made, and second, that the application of those decisions will not be manipulated so as to reintroduce in practice the sort of discrimination that is impermissible in theory.” Thus, Ely’s emphasis is on the procedural side of due process, on the preservation of governmental structure rather than on the recognition of elusive social values. At the same time, his approach is free of interpretivism’s rigidity because it is fully responsive to the changing wishes of a popular majority. Consequently, his book will have a profound impact on legal opinion at all levels—from experts in constitutional law, to lawyers with general practices, to concerned citizens watching the bewildering changes in American law.
Download or read book Revisiting the Constitution written by Elizabeth Renzulli and published by WestBowPress. This book was released on 2013-12-13 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The founding fathers offer their views on gun control, government and religion, immigration, legalization of narcotics, taxes, redistribution of wealth, term limits, judicial fiat, supreme court rulings and a host of other topics that concern todays citizenry. More than 224 years have passed since the forefathers of our great nation framed an enduring and supreme law, the United States Constitution. Revisiting the Constitution is nothing short of a passport through time, providing a historically accurate and unique perspective of the magnificent discourse which surrounded the creation of this time-honored doctrine. Any American citizen seeking a deeper understanding of the nations moral, legal, and governmental underpinnings can learn from such an outstanding text. Moreover, the words and enlightenment within come directly from authors such as Jefferson, Franklin, Madison, and Hamilton. Revisiting the Constitution should be everywhere, from eighth-grade civics classrooms to constitutional law libraries. Dr. Ed Massey, president of Indian River State College, Florida Revisiting the Constitution should be mandatory reading in high school and college and recommended reading in every American household. Elizabeth Renzullis masterpiece is an important work for everyone who loves and respects the United States of America. Ken Pruitt, Florida Senate president 20062008.
Download or read book So reason can rule the Constitution revisited written by Scott Buchanan and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Recapturing the Constitution written by Stephen B. Presser and published by Regnery Publishing. This book was released on 1994-10-06 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presser makes a compelling case that the original understanding of the Constitution was that religion, morality, and law were inextricably connected.--Forrest McDonald
Download or read book Common Sense Revisited written by William Smith and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2000-03 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Common Sense Revisited is an effort to reflect on the government created by the founding fathers as it has come to exist in our world today. In reality the author does not see any resemblance at all. Using the simple process of identifying the provisions of the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, and the Bill of Rights, the author demonstrates how the government today rejects them completely at will. This analogy is best demonstrated in exposing certain myths about out government that have served to hide government perfidy. We are not "a nation of laws" as the government so often proclaims. One need only understand that the Constitution set out laws to govern the government of this nation. Yet, the government does not abide these rules. Thus if the government does not obey the laws that govern it, it is totally unreal to expect the people to be governed by illegal laws made by that government. We, the people, must make the government obey the laws so that we may live in the security that this nation was intended to provide.
Download or read book The Constitution of the United States Revised and Updated written by Michael H. DeArmey and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-12-08 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At this moment of extreme political polarization in the U.S. which has the potential to threaten the very foundations of the state, Professor Michael DeArmey proposes a revised and updated Constitution. This enriched, reborn Constitution retains much of the current Constitution but also seeks to meliorate and indeed resolve entirely many of the seemingly intractable problems in American democracy. The rights of American citizens are revisited and expanded, and for the first time a wholly new Bill of Goods sets out government’s role in assisting in the necessities for life. Also new is a Bill of Citizen Duties and Responsibilities. The book contains a careful defense of the proposed changes, including individual chapters focusing on the most controversial topics. Other chapters explore why a constitution is needed and survey the Federalist papers on Constitutional structure. The book also examines the writings of Aristotle, John Adams’ Defence, and the correspondence of Madison and Jefferson.
Download or read book The Constitution Reconsidered written by Conyers Read and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book So Reason Can Rule written by Scott Milross Buchanan and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The American Voter Revisited written by Michael S. Lewis-Beck and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2009-12-18 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Today we are politically polarized as never before. The presidential elections of 2000 and 2004 will be remembered as two of the most contentious political events in American history. Yet despite the recent election upheaval, The American Voter Revisited discovers that voter behavior has been remarkably consistent over the last half century. And if the authors are correct in their predictions, 2008 will show just how reliably the American voter weighs in, election after election. The American Voter Revisited re-creates the outstanding 1960 classic The American Voter---which was based on the presidential elections of 1952 and 1956---following the same format, theory, and mode of analysis as the original. In this new volume, the authors test the ideas and methods of the original against presidential election surveys from 2000 and 2004. Surprisingly, the contemporary American voter is found to behave politically much like voters of the 1950s. "Simply essential. For generations, serious students of American politics have kept The American Voter right on their desk. Now, everyone will keep The American Voter Revisited right next to it." ---Larry J. Sabato, Director of the University of Virginia Center for Politics and author of A More Perfect Constitution "The American Voter Revisited is destined to be the definitive volume on American electoral behavior for decades. It is a timely book for 2008, with in-depth analyses of the 2000 and 2004 elections updating and extending the findings of the original The American Voter. It is also quite accessible, making it ideal for graduate students as well as advanced undergrads." ---Andrew E. Smith, Director of the University of New Hampshire Survey Center "A theoretically faithful, empirically innovative, comprehensive update of the original classic." ---Sam Popkin, Professor of Political Science, University of California, San Diego Michael S. Lewis-Beck is F. Wendell Miller Distinguished Professor of Political Science at the University of Iowa. William G. Jacoby is Professor of Political Science at Michigan State University. Helmut Norpoth is Professor of Political Science at Stony Brook University. Herbert F. Weisberg is Professor of Political Science at Ohio State University.
Download or read book A Companion to the United States Constitution and Its Amendments written by John R. Vile and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2021-10-11 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The U.S. Constitution and its 27 amendments (including the Bill of Rights) is a living document, as evidenced by new laws and Supreme Court rulings that with each passing year change how the Constitution's guidelines are interpreted and implemented. A Companion to the United States Constitution and Its Amendments is designed to show students just how revolutionary the Constitution was—and how relevant it remains today. This seventh revised edition of the Companion begins by revisiting the key events leading to the Constitution's ratification, including the writing of the Declaration of Independence and the proceedings of the Constitutional Convention, then explores the document article by article, amendment by amendment, to help readers better understand how each section of the document shapes the world we live in today. In addition, the Companion illuminates how new laws, political debates, and Supreme Court decisions are continually reshaping our understanding of the Constitution and its role in American life and society—including such essential and foundational elements of democracy as voting; elections; the peaceful transfer of power; equality before the law; civil rights and liberties; and the duties, responsibilities, and obligations of the nation's three branches of government.
Download or read book The Supreme Court and the Attitudinal Model Revisited written by Jeffrey A. Segal and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2002-09-16 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two leading scholars of the Supreme Court explain and predict its decision making.
