Wrong and dangerous
Subtitle: ten right-wing myths about the constitution
By: Garrett Epps
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Lanham, Md
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781442216761; 9781442216785
Subjects: Constitutional amendments; Conservatism; Constitutional law; Law; Popular works; Interpretation and construction
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The right is "originalist," everyone else is "idiotic"; title: The 'purpose' of the constitution is to limit Congress; title: Congress has stretched the commerce power beyond its proper limits; title: The constitution doesn't separate church and state; title: Equality and self-government are "wholly foreign to the first amendment"; title: The second amendment allows citizens to threaten government; title: The tenth amendment, "state's rights," and "state sovereignty"; title: Pay no attention to that fourteenth amendment behind the curtain; title: Election of senators destroys "states' rights"; title: International law is a threat to the constitution.