Everything You Know About the Constitution is Wrong
"Everything You Know About the Constitution is Wrong" tells the untold story of the United States Constitution. It debunks the popular myth that the United States Constitution was written to give Americans individual rights. It shows how the so-called Bill of Rights was a list of restrictions on the federal government to protect the States, not a list of individual rights for citizens. It shows how after the Civil War, politicians who were incapable of writing a new Constitution chose instead to transform the federal system into a national one through a single amendment. This turned the Constitution inside out, forcing words that meant one thing (federal limits) now to mean something else (individual rights).
The Constitution was broken as a result. Americans can see the results today. The Constitution no longer binds the federal government: agencies like the CIA, the NSA, and others, are essentially free to ignore the Constitution. The United States itself is free to invade other countries for little or no reason. The President is becoming a sort of military emperor; the Congress is utterly powerless; and the Supreme Court issues one terrible decision after another.
How did it happen? Americans gained individual liberties of a sort, but lost the system the Founding Fathers invented. Most do not realize that many of the liberties they take for granted have not come from the Constitution, but from a little-known Supreme Court legal maneuver known as incorporation. The individual right to bear arms was granted through incorporation in 2010. Other rights have been granted here and there only at the discretion of the Supreme Court.
From Ron Paul and Alex Jones to Barack Obama and the U.S. Supreme Court, the Constitution is today completely misunderstood. A new constitution was needed after the Civil War, and it is no less needed today. This book takes the reader through the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, the Articles of Confederation, and other key texts in understanding the American system of government.
About the Author
Edward James Snowden was the name specified by the United States Government in its request for authorities in Hong Kong to arrest the famed whistleblower. Snowden’s actual full name, however, was Edward Joseph Snowden.
This gesture conveyed two things. For one, it conveyed that the United States Government would be brutal and relentless in its pursuit of a citizen who was simply exposing violations of the United States Constitution. Secondly, it conveyed that while the United States Government would use the full force of the State like any tyrannical government would to pursue an honest young man, it would also not sweat the details. Thus, the United States Government simultaneously was single-mindedly determined to devour Snowden, but it also couldn’t be bothered to get the basic fact of his name right.
We are all Edward James Snowden. Any American who has seen the terrible bureaucracy of today’s government and corporations in action knows that it has a dual nature. It wants to crush you, to make you an object of its will out a deep-seated hate. But it is also blissfully unconcerned — uninterested when it comes to the details of who you are.
It was entirely appropriate, then, for the United States Government to demand the arrest of Edward James Snowden. That was, in fact, who they were after. That is who they are always after.