Six amendments
Subtitle: how and why we should change the Constitution
By: John Paul Stevens
Edition: First Edition.
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 177
ISBN-13: 9780316373722
Subjects: United States; Constitutional amendments; Constitutional law
Description: By the time of his retirement in June 2010, the author had become the second longest serving Justice in the history of the Supreme Court. Now he draws upon his more than three decades on the Court, during which he was involved with many of the defining decisions of the modern era, to offer a book articulating not only the need for changes, but also what those improvements should be. This is a call to arms, detailing six specific ways in which the Constitution should be amended in order to protect our democracy and the safety and wellbeing of American citizens. Written with the same precision and elegance that made his own Court opinions legendary for their clarity as well as logic, this is a remarkable work, both because of its unprecedented nature and, in an age of partisan ferocity, its inarguable common sense.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The "anti-commandeering" rule; title: Political gerrymandering; title: Campaign finance; title: Sovereign immunity; title: The death penalty; title: The Second Amendment (gun control); title: Constitution of the United States.