The Rebirth Constitution

The Rebirth Constitution
Author: Thomas Dahlberg
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Total Pages: 164
Release: 2013-07-04
Genre:
ISBN: 9781484910207

The US Constitution of 1789 has been disobeyed from the outset because it could be. Its anti-democratic bias, its lack of democratic process, has made it impossible for the people to directly police their so-called "representatives," judges, and constitutional officers. None of them, contrary to what they so often suggest, are the champions of the objective truth. All human thought and action is tradition-bound. Because it was not specifically prohibited and sanctioned in the constitution of 1789, the government has monopolized the means of cultural production -- the schools, the universities, the welfare system, policy-making science, immigration, and the courts. It has leveraged this monopoly in its attempt to make its liberal, rationalist tradition the culturally dominant tradition and the dominant interpretation of the otherwise static text of the positive law -- including the constitution itself. The so-called "rule of law" is the rule of a dominant tradition. We must make it impossible for the government to unilaterally determine that tradition. Democracy is the private ownership and control of the means of cultural production. This must be asserted explicitly in our constitution if democracy is going to survive. We need a new postmodern constitution which rejects the modern liberal notion that the government can be rooted in universal standards of rational justification and universal principles of justice; that it can be tradition-neutral. Democracy is rooted in a whole web of belief about Reality, including the nature of man and therefore the nature of justice. The Rebirth Constitution recognizes the Christian foundations of real democracy, including the rejection of any official state religion and the separation of the state from every form of non-technical education. The western religious tradition is the foundation of all limits on the state. The state must have a tradition to administer justice. Paradoxically, that tradition must be one which, by its very nature, puts itself at risk by giving the people complete control over the means of cultural production. Without this popular control of the culture there is no liberty and there is no peace. This is what justifies the very same government's enforcement of the democratically derived law; its prohibition of sub-cultural law when such law violates the law written by the people and interpreted by the tradition they make dominant through competing private education and the election of their judges. The Rebirth Constitution is an explicitly postmodern, neopopulist artifact. It is a text that will please libertarians, but whose foundations are unquestionably post-liberal.

Hanging by a Thread

Hanging by a Thread
Author: Richard N. Skousen
Publisher: Verity Publishing, Inc.
Total Pages: 246
Release: 2016-03-07
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0934364818

The Rebirth of America

The Rebirth of America
Author: Loran E. Coppoc
Publisher:
Total Pages: 262
Release: 2000
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9781556052996

This book covers the problems facing America today; the concerns that are discussed daily on Main Street and in public forums. Citizens should be made aware they are free to exercise their constitutional authority to amend the Constitution. No doubt, the central government will do everything to thwart constitutional action by the people, but it will be powerless against us, just as the Communist leaders in the Soviet Union were ultimately powerless against the Russian people. The founders gave us a Constitution and a Declaration of Independence which together gives America the authority, as Thomas Jefferson said, "to secure those rights, Governments are instituted among men, deriving their just Powers from the Consent of the Governed, that whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these Ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute a new Government, laying its Foundation on such Principles, and organizing its Powers in such Form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness". America has far more problems today than the Colonies had in 1787 when the founders wrote a Constitution that was unique in the history of world governments. They knew all governments were evil; that their power must be restricted to national defense and very little else. This book addresses these issues in light of the "power of the people" implicit in the U.S. Constitution.

American Resurrection

American Resurrection
Author: Sean Edwards
Publisher:
Total Pages: 132
Release: 2015-01-31
Genre:
ISBN: 9780985771546

The United States of America is the greatest, the noblest and, in its original founding principles, the only moral country in the history of the world." Ayn Rand The Constitution has failed. At its birth, the Constitution changed the world. But over the past century it has repeatedly failed to protect Americans from countless human rights violations. Yet, most Americans do not even realize that it has failed, which is a much more troubling problem. Americans are not properly educated in their nation's great heritage, nor the reasons why our nation exists. We are taught that we rebelled because we didn't want to pay taxes. Taxes were not the issue. Today, in a confused struggle to do what is right, we have cannibalize our principles and forgotten our great purpose. This book is an attempt to reawaken the giant that changed the world. The ideas that the led to our nations founding still have the power to radically change history. We only need to remember who we are. Liberal or conservative, this book will challenge you to see the world in a new and powerful way. The United States still has a destiny to fulfill in the world, the only question is... will we do what is necessary to realize that future? Find out how by reading "American Resurrection: The Failure of the U.S. Constitution and The Rebirth of A Nation."

American Founding Son

American Founding Son
Author: Gerard N. Magliocca
Publisher: NYU Press
Total Pages: 304
Release: 2013-09-06
Genre: History
ISBN: 0814761453

John Bingham was the architect of the rebirth of the United States following the Civil War. A leading antislavery lawyer and congressman from Ohio, Bingham wrote the most important part of the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution, which guarantees fundamental rights and equality to all Americans. He was also at the center of two of the greatest trials in history, giving the closing argument in the military prosecution of John Wilkes Booth’s co-conspirators for the assassination of Abraham Lincoln and in the impeachment of President Andrew Johnson. And more than any other man, Bingham played the key role in shaping the Union’s policy towards the occupied ex-Confederate States, with consequences that still haunt our politics. American Founding Son provides the most complete portrait yet of this remarkable statesman. Drawing on his personal letters and speeches, the book traces Bingham’s life from his humble roots in Pennsylvania through his career as a leader of the Republican Party. Gerard N. Magliocca argues that Bingham and his congressional colleagues transformed the Constitution that the Founding Fathers created, and did so with the same ingenuity that their forbears used to create a more perfect union in the 1780s. In this book, Magliocca restores Bingham to his rightful place as one of our great leaders. Gerard N. Magliocca is the Samuel R. Rosen Professor at Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law. He is the author of three books on constitutional law, and his work on Andrew Jackson was the subject of an hour-long program on C-Span’s Book TV.

Conscience and the Constitution

Conscience and the Constitution
Author: David A. J. Richards
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Total Pages: 308
Release: 2014-07-14
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1400863562

At stage center of the American drama, maintains David A. J. Richards, is the attempt to understand the implications of the Reconstruction Amendments--Amendments Thirteen, Fourteen, and Fifteen to the United States Constitution. Richards evaluates previous efforts to interpret the amendments and then proposes his own view: together the amendments embodied a self-conscious rebirth of America's revolutionary, rights-based constitutionalism. Building on an approach to constitutional law developed in his Toleration and the Constitution and Foundations of American Constitutionalism, Richards links history, law, and political theory. In Conscience and the Constitution, this method leads from an analysis of the Reconstruction Amendments to a broad discussion of the American constitutional system as a whole. Richards's interpretation focuses on the abolitionists and their radical commitment to the "dissenting conscience." In his view, the Reconstruction Amendments expressed not only the constitutional arguments of a particular historical period but also a general political theory developed by the abolitionists, who restructured the American political community in terms of respect for universal human rights. He argues further that the amendments make a claim on our generation to keep faith with the vision of the "founders of 1865." In specific terms he points out what such allegiance would mean in the context of present-day constitutional issues. Originally published in 1993. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

The Broken Constitution

The Broken Constitution
Author: Noah Feldman
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Total Pages: 236
Release: 2021-11-02
Genre: History
ISBN: 0374720878

A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice An innovative account of Abraham Lincoln, constitutional thinker and doer Abraham Lincoln is justly revered for his brilliance, compassion, humor, and rededication of the United States to achieving liberty and justice for all. He led the nation into a bloody civil war to uphold the system of government established by the US Constitution—a system he regarded as the “last best hope of mankind.” But how did Lincoln understand the Constitution? In this groundbreaking study, Noah Feldman argues that Lincoln deliberately and recurrently violated the United States’ founding arrangements. When he came to power, it was widely believed that the federal government could not use armed force to prevent a state from seceding. It was also assumed that basic civil liberties could be suspended in a rebellion by Congress but not by the president, and that the federal government had no authority over slavery in states where it existed. As president, Lincoln broke decisively with all these precedents, and effectively rewrote the Constitution’s place in the American system. Before the Civil War, the Constitution was best understood as a compromise pact—a rough and ready deal between states that allowed the Union to form and function. After Lincoln, the Constitution came to be seen as a sacred text—a transcendent statement of the nation’s highest ideals. The Broken Constitution is the first book to tell the story of how Lincoln broke the Constitution in order to remake it. To do so, it offers a riveting narrative of his constitutional choices and how he made them—and places Lincoln in the rich context of thinking of the time, from African American abolitionists to Lincoln’s Republican rivals and Secessionist ideologues. Includes 8 Pages of Black-and-White Illustrations