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The Heritage Guide to the Constitution |  | Authors: Edwin Meese, Matthew Spalding, David F. Forte
Creators: Matthew Spalding, David F. Forte
Publisher: Regnery Publishing, Inc.
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This guide is the first of its kind, and presents the U.S. Constitution as never before, including a clause-by-clause analysis of the document, each amendment and relevant court case, and the documents that serve as the foundation of the Constitution.
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We The People... February 15, 2010
JD Daltry (East Coast, USA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Want to learn AND UNDERSTAND our Constitution? Not just 'think' you know what it is from what you hear from mass media sound bites and others seeking to 'fundamentally change America'. GET THIS TERRIFIC PUBLICATION THAT IS EASY TO READ AND FOLLOW, AND MOST IMPORTANTLY, UNDERSTAND.
KNOW WHAT YOU'RE TALIKING ABOUT THE NEXT TIME YOU ARE ENGAGED IN A CONVERSATION ABOUT YOUR COUNTRY AND ITS HERITAGE and the rights of We The People.
Remember Our Constitution November 8, 2009
B. Peterson
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
An excellent review and explanation of our U.S. of A. Constitution. Every American could benefit from reading it.
should be required reading for all Americans! September 30, 2009
Beach Bum (Va. Beach, Va USA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
From a person who has never read very much, this is a gem. I guard it with my life. Each Article, Section and Clause has its own unbiased explanation of what the Founding Forefathers thought or meant. It is also a great reference guide for further reading on Constitutional law.
The Proverbial of OUR GOVERNMENT September 13, 2009
James E. Girzone
What can one say other than that the reading, and--crucially important, the intimate understanding of this Document, is ESSENTIAL for this Country's survival and the proper governance of WE THE PEOPLE!
A Great Tool For Informed Debate September 12, 2009
Tony Pipia (Georgia)
Almost every bill and bureaucracy Congress passes and/or approves is an unconstitutional and expanding encroachment into the precincts of private and individual liberty - that is, our God-given inalienable rights.
The federal judiciary has been just as incrementally complicit in these transgressions, as well as, due to their lifetime appointments, chronologically far more dangerous.
Our elected officials, appointees and government bureaucrats are engaged in a longitudinal and synergetic betrayal of our National Charter that has long ago crossed the line of a sort of collective treason.
This Guide gives the, who, when, where and how.
It also reveals where these branches have been reticent, lazy, selfish and remiss in upholding their proper authority.
For example, there was a time when our Executives were good judges whose veto pens were their gavels.
Now, it seems the ranks of our government - elected, appointed and bureaucratic - are littered with those who would foster our demise through the wiles of Cloward and Pivens.
One example is how the sloppy ambiguity of bills passed in the House and Senate are both lazy and nefarious.
On one hand, lazy legislators skirt their responsibility for crafting clear, cogent bills - leaving it to the courts to interpret.
On the other hand, the bills are deliberately scribed loose, ambiguous and open to conflicting interpretations as a duplicitous way for legislators to trick all sides of their constituencies.
Hence, the legislators can blame the courts for "unfavorable outcomes," thereby protecting their standing among their constituencies.
This is a favorite trick among most democrats today who are advancing the liberal (spelled M-a-r-x-i-s-t,) agenda because it gives them plausible deniability.
Another example is the term "common Defence and general Welfare" in the Spending Clause.
"Common Defence and general Welfare" is a unified term in the Spending Clause.
Hence, the original intent of the "general welfare" is merely an appendage of national security in a military/intelligence (as opposed to a `nanny/statist') sense.
We learn that Alexander Hamilton had a liberal understanding of spending.
However, James Madison and Thomas Jefferson held that only spending that is explicitly defined by "enumerated powers" was the proper interpretation.
The latter position held until after the civil war, when the "general Welfare" clause was interpreted to apply uniformly across the entire country for infrastructure, (e.g. bridges on interstate highways, which are applicable to both interstate commerce and national security.)
A contemporary interpretation of this conservative trend would imply that purposes which are exclusively ideological, secular, ethnic, religious, etc., and/or that are strictly local, parochial or provincial, are both in practice and implicitly proscribed.
In other words, such a ruling would claim that, because neither interstate commerce nor national security are involved, the federal government does not have the legitimate authority to demand that a County Courthouse remove plaques of the Ten Commandments, nor can it impose the secular mores of the "Church of Liberalism"1 on a local school district by denying children the unalienable right to pray.
This interpretation prevailed until FDR, when the Court2 used the metastasizing usurpation known as "judicial review,"3 to further twist the Constitution out of shape by ruling that the definition of the spending clause was a nonjusticable question left to congressional wrangling. (p. 95)
In Marbury v Madison, the Court hijacked for itself an exclusive and controversial Constitutional power, (i.e. judicial review,) which was a subtle perforation of the `separation of powers,' that placed Congress on the Court's invisible leash.
Later, in U.S. v Butler, and with the blessing of the Executive, this judicial insurgency cell of unConstitutional captors `awarded' Congress the leeway to completely define the Spending Clause.
In other words, like an estranged Madam in a brothel of economic pedophiles, the Court claimed for itself the rogue and discretionary authority to keep and/or distribute this hijacked power in the ideological direction de jour, effectively transforming the growing perforation in the wall separating powers into an open and outright breach.
This set the stage for the unconstitutional and unaccountable expansion of Leviathan, under which democrats delight in masochistic fawn, conservatives rail and polish their arms and subjects are cowed, but not for long.
Because of this judicial malpractice and the subsequent and wonton tomfoolery that is perpetrated on our treasury, most of what is defined and passed by congress today has no connection (explicit or implicit) to enumerated powers.
Hence, the seeds of totalitarianism were planted while the `state' is "living beyond all your means."4
"This...was not the Framers' plan and is not the meaning of the Spending Clause." (p. 96.)
Whatever the issue, whether spending, amending, districts, consent, yatta, etc., ad-infinitum, you will find articles that shine light on these topics from a cogent, originalist perspective.
It will be difficult and painful - like shrinking a cancerous growth with kemo-therapy, or sticking to a SlimFast diet - but this text can be a priceless instrument used for pulling our country from the edge of an abyss.
Keep it handy and ply it readily when engaged in any debate.
"The Panzer tracks of Leviathan roll slow and incrementally, clouding enlightenment while crushing liberty, like an oiled, Orwellian machine."5
1 Coulter, Ann, Godless, "The Church of Liberalism," (2006.)
2 (U.S. v Butler, 1936.)
3 (Marbury v Madison, 1803,)
4 Traffic, "The Low Spark of High Heeled Boys," (1971.)
5 Pipia, (1998.)
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