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Find the full selection of Politically Incorrect Guides in our Book Corner category. The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Constitution by Kevin R.C. Gutzman Paperback - 224 pages The Constitution of the United States created a... See more » Find the full selection of Politically Incorrect Guides in our Book Corner category. The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Constitution by Kevin R.C. Gutzman Paperback - 224 pages The Constitution of the United States created a representative republic marked by federalism and the separation of powers. Yet numerous federal judgesled by the Supreme Courthave used the Constitution as a blank check to substitute their own views on hot-button issues such as abortion, capital punishment, and samesex marriage for perfectly constitutional laws enacted by We the People through our elected representatives. Now, The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Constitution shows that there is very little relationship between the Constitution as ratified by the thirteen original states more than two centuries ago and the constitutional law imposed upon us since then. Instead of the system of state-level decision -makers and elected officials the Constitution was intended to create, judges have given us a highly centralized system in which bureaucrats and appointednot electedofficials make most of the important policies. In The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Constitution, Professor Kevin Gutzman, who holds advanced degrees in both law and American history: -explains how the Constitution was understood by the founders who wrote it and the people who ratified it -follows the Supreme Court as it uses the fig leaf of the Constitution to cover its naked usurpation of the rights and powers the Constitution explicitly reserves to the states and to the people -shows how we slid from the Constitutions republican federal government, with its very limited powers, to an unrepublican judgeocracy with limitless powers -reveals how huge swaths of American law and society were remade in the wake of Supreme Court rulings -reveals how the Fourteenth Amendment has been twisted to use the Bill of Rights as a check on state power instead of on federal power, as originally intended -exposes the radical inconsistency between constitutional law and the rule of law -contends that the judges who receive the most attention in history books are celebrated for acting against the Constitution rather than for it As Professor Gutzman shows, constitutional law is supposed to apply the Constitutions plain meaning to prevent judges, presidents, and congresses from overstepping their authority. If we want to return to the founding fathers vision of the Republic, if we want the Constitution enforced in the way it was explained to the people at the time of its ratification, then we have to overcome the received wisdom about what constitutional law is. The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Constitution is an important step in that direction. About the Author: Kevin R. C. Gutzman, J.D., Ph.D. is associate professor of American history at Western Connecticut State University. He received his Master of Public Affairs from the University of Texas, his J.D. from the University of Texas School of Law, and his M.A. and Ph.D. in American history from the University of Virginia. Dr. Gutzman is the author of Virginias American Revolution: From Dominion to Republic, 17761840 and was a featured expert in the documentary film John Marshall: Citizen, Statesman, and Jurist. He has written scores of articles and encyclopedia entries, as well as reviews of books, films, and exhibitions for magazines academic and popular. He lives in Bethel, Connecticut, with his three children. See less »

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