num_pages: 272
description: Let no more be heard of confidence in man but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the Constitution.Thomas JeffersonThe United States Constitutionthe bedrock of our country the foundation of our federal republicis . . . dead. You wont hear that from the politicians who endlessly pay lip service to the Constitution. Its 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 officialsDemocrats and Republicans presidents judges and congresses alikelong ago rejected the idea that the Constitution possesses a fixed meaning limiting the U.S. governments power. In case youve forgotten this idea was not a minor aspect of the Constitution; it was the documents 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 Constitutionsome 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 governments great gold robberythe 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 statean invention that completely contradicts what the Constitution says DARE to touch the third rail of American jurisprudence Brown v. Board of Educationshowing why a government decision that seems right isnt necessarily constitutionalNever shying away from controversy Woods and Gutzman reveal an unsettling but unavoidable truth: now that the federal government has broken free of the Constitutions 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.
language: English
title: Who Killed the Constitution?: The Fate of American Liberty from World War I to George W. Bush
publisher: Crown Forum