Books : Who Killed the Constitution?: The Fate of American Liberty from World War I to George W. Bush
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by: Thomas E. Woods Jr., Kevin R. C. Gutzman
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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 342.73029
EAN: 9780307405753
ISBN: 0307405753
Label: Crown Forum
Manufacturer: Crown Forum
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 272
Publication Date: July 08, 2008
Publisher: Crown Forum
Release Date: July 08, 2008
Sales Rank: 19694
Studio: Crown Forum
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“Let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the Constitution.”
—Thomas Jefferson
The United States Constitution—the bedrock of our country, the foundation of our federal republic—is . . . dead.
You won’t hear that from the politicians who endlessly pay lip service to the Constitution. It’s the dirty little secret that bestselling authors Thomas E. Woods Jr. and Kevin R. C. Gutzman expose in this provocative new book. The fact is that government officials—Democrats and Republicans, presidents, judges, and congresses alike—long ago rejected the idea that the Constitution possesses a fixed meaning limiting the U.S. government’s power.
In case you’ve forgotten, this idea was not a minor aspect of the Constitution; it was the document’s very purpose.
Woods and Gutzman round up the suspects responsible for the death of the government the Founding Fathers designed. Going right to the scenes of the crimes, they dissect twelve of the most egregious assaults on the Constitution—some virtually unknown. In chronicling this “dirty dozen,” the authors show that the attacks began long before presidents declared preemptive wars, congresses built pork-barrel bridges to nowhere, and Supreme Court justices began to behave as our supreme legislators.
In Who Killed the Constitution? Woods and Gutzman
• REVEAL the federal government’s “great gold robbery”—the flagrant assault on the Constitution you never heard about in history class
• DESTROY the phony case for presidential war power
• EXPOSE how the federal government has actively discriminated to end . . . discrimination
• TEAR DOWN the “wall of separation” between church and state—an invention that completely contradicts what the Constitution says
• DARE to touch the “third rail of American jurisprudence,” Brown v. Board of Education—showing why a government decision that seems “right” isn’t necessarily constitutional
Never shying away from controversy, Woods and Gutzman reveal an unsettling but unavoidable truth: now that the federal government has broken free of the Constitution’s chains, government officials are restrained by little more than their sense of what they can get away with.
Who Killed the Constitution? is a rallying cry for Americans outraged by government run amok and a warning to take heed before we lose the liberties we are truly entitled to.
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Rating:  - MUST READ FOR EVERY AMERICAN
This will be short...still reading this book.
Every American must read this book AND the actual Constitution. Our government has gone so far beyond the powers granted by the Constitution! Be an informed citizen so you can demand the Constitution be upheld.
Rating: - The Death of the United States Constitution.
Let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the Constitution. - Thomas Jefferson.
_Who Killed the Constitution: The Fate of American Liberty from World War I to George W. Bush_, published in 2008, by Thomas E. Woods Jr. and Kevin R. C. Gutzman is a fascinating and horrifying account of the assaults on the Constitution by the federal government which have ultimately led to the destruction of the ideals embodied in this document by America's ... Read More
Rating: - who killed the constitution
This book is straight forward, easy to understand and has something you do not see in journalism anymore. It tells the truth and is not biased. Just that alone makes this a good read.
Rating: - The Constitution Was
In WHO KILLED THE CONSTITUTION?, historian Thomas Woods and legal scholar (and historian) Kevin Gutzman show just how little the Supreme Court's interpretation of the Constitution is based on the actual history of text of that document. And it isn't just the Supreme Court. The presidency has claimed ever greater powers over military and foreign policy contrary to the Constitution, often with the tacit consent of Congress.
According to the Constitution, the federal government has limited and ... Read More
Rating:  - Read it and cry the beloved Constitution
This book will guide you through the legal atrocities that have led us to where we are today. It lays everything out in clear language that is understandable to anyone. It is written for laymen, not lawyers. In spite of the confusing complexities of the positions, I was able to follow the points, even in casual reading in bed.
In twelve lucid chapters, the authors lay out the issues, positions and faulty reasoning that has left us in this quandary. It seems that every decision has increased ... Read More
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