The Tea Party: Three Principles
"At last, someone conversant with the large issues now roiling contemporary American politics has taken the Tea Party seriously and concluded that it is intellectually substantial and politically constructive. Elizabeth Price Foley, one of today's most stimulating writers on constitutional law, finds much to admire in the Tea Party's coherent braiding of three themes-limited government, constitutional originalism, and an unapologetic defense of U.S. sovereignty." -George F. Will"Lambasted by the left, maligned by the media, the Tea Party may be the  political phenomenon of the decade. No one has captured the energy and  essence of this vital movement better than Elizabeth Price Foley. She  combines scholarship and lucid writing with a profound respect -  embraced by the Tea Party - for the U.S. Constitution as it was  originally crafted to secure individual liberty and restrain government  power. While I might quarrel with Prof. Foley's enthusiasm for America's  muscular global role, her intellectual defense of the Tea Party and her  application of its credo to urgent and controversial issues have  produced a powerful, provocative, and timely book, which I highly  recommend." -Robert A. Levy, Chairman, Cato Institute"Elizabeth Price Foley has produced an interesting and important work on the constitutional basis for the agenda of the Tea Party movement.... I do believe anyone interested in understanding how the growth of the welfare-regulatory state violates the constitution and threatens liberty can benefit from reading this book." -Ron Paul,  United States Congressman (R-TX)"Elizabeth Price Foley'sThe Tea Partyis a clear and straightforward explication of what the Tea Party Movement is all about, and is required reading for anyone who wants to understand the current political climate. With this slim, provocative volume, Foley once again demonstrates why she is one of constitutional law's rising stars."- Glenn Harlan Reynolds, Beauchamp Brogan Distinguished Professor of Law, University of Tennessee College  of Law“By  elevating principle above party, the Tea Party has already changed the  face of American politics. In this marvelous book, Elizabeth Price Foley  clearly identifies and defends the three basic principles that unite  the Tea Party movement, all stemming from its commitment to our written  Constitution. Politicos beware; the party has just begun.”–Randy  E. Barnett, Professor of Constitutional Law, Georgetown Law Center, and  author ofRestoring the Lost Constitution: The Presumption of Liberty(2005)"[Foley is one of the] champions of the Tea Party . . . [She] describes a  movement driven by 'constitutional principles.' These include 'limited  government, US sovereignty and constitutional originalism.' She adds  that these principles are distinct from 'the social conservatism that  has dominated the conservative movement for the last thirty years' and  that Tea Partiers are at best lukewarm in their attitudes toward issues  like abortion or gay marriage.' -Sam Tanenhaus, New York Review of Books"Foley lays out in exacting terms the core philosophy that underpins the  movement. Foley writes like a lawyer, and the book reads like a  well-constructed brief, which is not a criticism. So much nonsense has  been written about tea party philosophy that a structured treatise that  gets to the heart of the matter is more than welcome. . . . [H]ighly  enjoyable reading."- John Bicknell, Roll Call"[E]rudite but not too weedy. There is enough meat on the bones to make  it both interesting and intellectually gratifying while never being too  hard a read.... [I]f you are a Tea Partier or interested in the  movement, this legal explanation of the ideas that drive the movement  should be most welcome."- Marty Dodge, Blogcritics.org