Personal Liberty & Constitutional Liberty in 2013 DC Treybil (Author)
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Revolutionary
This book begins by addressing two questions:
What was written in the text of the Constitution for the USoA in 1791?
What did the Constitution for the USoA mean in 1791?
The two questions are addressed in the book, but no attempt is made to answer them exhaustively. Instead, the questions are answered adequately to address two more questions:
What would a government that governed least do in 1791?
How would a government that governs least today compare to a government that governed least in 1791?
The conclusions of the book rest on the text of the Constitution and how its provisions apply to events contemporary to the framing. The Constitution's text was influenced strongly by events preceding the framing and exerted influence on events after the framing. The book shows how a few of those prior events influenced the Constitution as well as how the Constitution impacted later events.
Discussion in the book focuses on the Constitution’s text and early American history with only a few references to various court decisions. Discussion of cases and documents in Europe prior to the framing support the position advocated by the author, but they are not pivotal.
The book poses that the Constitution’s aim “to promote the general welfare” is synonymous with facilitating the pursuit of happiness. The book shows how a government that governs least under the terms of the Constitution can facilitate pursuit of happiness in a real way. The book makes clear the author’s position concerning both the extent of such a government’s activities and the limits of such a government’s activities toward this end according the author’s understanding of the Constitution.
A “language of liberty” is badly needed in the activist community. This book does not present an entire language; however, it introduces key concepts and applies a specific term to the concept. The same term is used with a decent degree of consistency throughout the text to refer to each specific concept. While the book makes no pretense of developing an entire “language of liberty”, it does offer a few terms to add to the common vocabulary.
Both the table of contents and the list of illustrations are exhaustively hyperlinked to the book. Click on an entry in the table of contents to go to the corresponding heading in text. Click on a heading in the text and go to the corresponding entry in the table of contents.
Also, the virtual navigation tool of the Kindle is implemented in this text. Kindle users will be happy to see that.
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- Rank: #176080 in eBooks
- Published on: 2013-02-10
- Released on: 2013-02-10
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Description #1 by Magazines.com:
This is the game changing book revealing the blueprint for a second term that President Obama and his progressive backers don't want you to know. Months of painstaking research into thousands of documents have enabled investigative journalists and New York Times bestselling authors Aaron Klein and Brenda J. Elliott to expose the secret template for Obama's next four years -- the one actually created by Obama's own top advisers and strategists. Just as Obama concealed the true plans for his initial term behind rhetoric of ending partisan differences and cutting the Federal deficit, Obama's re-election theme of creating jobs conceals more than it reveals about his real agenda for a second term. All the main areas of domestic policy are covered -- jobs, wages, health care, immigration overhaul, electoral 'reform,' national energy policy. Each of the plans exposed seek to permanently remake America into a government-dominated socialist state. Here are just a few samples from dozens upon dozens of specific schemes unveiled herein: Detailed plans to enact single-payer health care legislation controlled by the Federal government regardless of any Supreme Court decision to overturn Obamacare; The recreation of a 21st century version of FDR's Works Progress Administration (WPA) program within the Department of Labor that would oversee a massive new bureaucracy and millions of new Federal jobs; Further gutting of the US military in shocking ways, while using the 'savings' for a new 'green' stimulus program and the founding of a Federal 'green' bank to fund so-called environmentally friendly projects; The vastly reduced resources of the US Armed Forces will be spread even thinner by using them to combat 'global warming,' fight global poverty, remedy 'injustice,' bolster the United Nations and step up use of 'peacekeeping' deployments; An expansive new amnesty program for illegal aliens linked with a reduction in the capabilities of the US Border Patrol and plans to bring in untold numbers of new immigrants with the removal of caps on H-1B visas and green cards. Fool Me Twice is based on exhaustive research into the coming plans and presidential policies as well as the specific second term recommendations of the major 'progressive' groups behind Barack Obama and the Democratic leadership - the organizations that help to craft the legislation and set the political and rhetorical agenda for the president and his allies. While many have general concerns about Obama's second-term ambitions, Fool Me Twice lays bare the devastating details of a second Obama presidency. If he wins re-election in 2012, the America of equal opportunity for all, Constitutionally-limited government, economic freedom and personal liberty will be but a distant memory.
Description #2 by Magazines.com:
DOES THE GOVERNMENT EXIST TO SERVE US OR TO MASTER US?If the government exists to serve us, and if freedom is part of our humanity, how can the government take freedom from us? Is human freedom in America a myth, or is it reality? The United States of America was born out of a bloody revolt against tyranny. Yet almost from its inception, the government here has suppressed liberty. Within the pages of 'It Is Dangerous To Be Right When The Government Is Wrong,' New York Times best-selling author Judge Andrew P. Napolitano lays out the case that the US government, whose first obligation is to protect and preserve individual freedoms, actually does neither.The judge offers eye-opening, sometimes frightening examples of how, time and again, the human liberties we are guaranteed in the Constitution are vanishing before our eyes. He asks: where does freedom come from? How can government in America exercise power that the people have not given to it? What forces have collaborated to destroy personal freedom? This back-to-basics on freedom addresses hard questions: What is a Constitution, and do we still have one?What are the limits to government power in a free society?Why does the government attack, rather than defend, our rights?If our rights are inalienable, how can the government take them away?Do we really own any private property?America is at a fundamental crossroads. There are stirrings in the land and a cry that 'enough is enough.' The stories within these pages are told to help reawaken the natural human thirst for freedom-to point out government interference with natural order and the disastrous consequences that follow.
Description #3 by Bookdepository.com:
Rights at Risk : Paperback : Vintage Books : 9780307947000 : 0307947009 : 02 Apr 2013 : An enlightening, intensely researched examination of violations of the constitutional principles that preserve individual rights and civil liberties from courtrooms to classrooms. With telling anecdote and detail, Pulitzer Prize-winner David K. Shipler explores the territory where the Constitution meets everyday America, where legal compromises--before and since 9/11--have undermined the criminal justice system's fairness, enhanced the executive branch's power over citizens and immigrants, and...
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