In Our Lost Constitution, Senator Mike Lee tells the dramatic, little-known stories behind six of the Constitution's most indispensible provisions. He shows their rise. He shows their fall. And he makes vividly clear how nearly every abuse of federal power today is rooted in neglect of this Lost Constitution.
Craig Nelson, Thomas Paine: Enlightenment, Revolution, and the Birth of Modern Nations (New York: Viking Penguin, 2006), 53. Nelson, Thomas Paine, 77. Nelson, Thomas Paine, 77. Nelson, Thomas Paine, 76. Thomas Paine, The Crisis, ...
They failed to consider that the Roberts Court might not think the case posed so stark and unacceptable a choice. But some may well object: Why this far and no farther? Why draw the line at this point? Isn't this arbitrary?
When Clarence Thomas joined the Supreme Court in 1991, he found with dismay that it was interpreting a very different Constitution from the one the framers had written—the one that had established a federal government manned by the ...
Our Lost Constitution
Learning of the existence of an early, annotated draft of the constitution, rare book expert Peter Fallon and his girlfriend, Evangeline, realize that the annotations identify the Founding Fathers' true intentions for the Bill of Rights ...
Mike Lee, a respected member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, reveals the answer to that question and warns of the dangerous norm-shattering precedent that would be set by politically motivated attempts to turn the Supreme Court into just ...
On the difficulties of this period, see PHILLIPS, supra note 39, at 33—45. 54. A few state banks were used in the East as well. See Banks in Which the Receipts from the Public Lands Are Deposited (Feb. 14, 1822), reprinted in 3 AMERICAN ...
And yet, writes Larry P. Arnn: “The words of the Declaration of Independence ring across the ages.
Beginning with the Constitution's birth in 1787, Paulsen and Paulsen offer a grand tour of its provisions, principles, and interpretation, introducing readers to the characters and controversies that have shaped the Constitution in the 200 ...
But—trigger warning!—after reading this book, I predict you’ll find yourself more persuaded than you expected to be of the urgent case for reclaiming our Republican Constitution.”—William Kristol, editor of The Weekly Standard ...