Who Killed the Constitution?

Subtitle: The Fate of American Liberty from World War I to George W. Bush

 

About the Title: The United States Constitution—the bedrock of our country, the foundation of our federal republic is ... dead.

 

You won't hear that from the politicians who endlessly pay lip service to the Constitution. It's the dirty little secret that these best-selling authors expose in this provocative book. The fact is that government officials—Democrat and Republican, presidents and judges and congresses alike—long ago rejected the idea that the Constitution possesses a fixed meaning limiting the U.S. Government's power.

 

In case you've forgotten, this idea was not a minor aspect of the Constitution; it was the document's very purpose!

 

Going right to the scenes of the crimes, Woods and Gutzman dissect twelve of the most egregious assaults on the Constitution, some virtually unknown. In chronicling these "dirty dozen," the authors show that the attacks began long before presidents declared preemptive wars, congresses built pork-barrel bridges to nowhere and Supreme Court justices began to behave as our supreme legislators.

Copyright: 2008