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The Politically Incorrect Guide(tm) to the Constitution (Politically Incorrect Guides) |  | Author: Kevin R. C. Gutzman
Publisher: Regnery Publishing, Inc.
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Media: Paperback
Pages: 272
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Dimensions (in): 8.9 x 7.2 x 0.6
ISBN: 1596985054
Dewey Decimal Number: 342.7302
EAN: 9781596985056
ASIN: 1596985054
Publication Date: June 11, 2007
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A promise: you have never read a book on the Constitution that is this clear, enlightening, or truth telling, for none like it has ever appeared since it was first past. This isn't just a primer for people who have never read Constitutional history. It is a spectacularly new take on the document, its origins, its meaning, and the way it has been shredded and reassembled in the course of American history for the purpose of serving state elites.
It provides information you simply cannot find elsewhere. Author Kevin R.C. Gutzman shows that the defiance of the document dates back to the first year's after its passage.
Thomas Woods writes: "Although I was revisiting much familiar ground as I read this book, even I was shocked at how dishonest the federal courts have been over the years. And Gutzman just eviscerates all of it, slashing and burning everything in sight, and holding up the ludicrous series of fictions that pass for 'constitutional law' to hilarious derision.Gutzman isn't supposed to do any of this, of course, since the continuation of the racket depends on popular ignorance."
A striking fact is that this author hasn't previously published in the public arena. His scholarly articles have only appeared in high-level academic journals such as The Journal of the Early Republic and The William and Mary Quarterly. But here he uses all knowledge to reach out to everyone in an effort to help us understand our own history.
272 page softcover
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 Essential Reading July 16, 2010
Jesse M. Townsley
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
'The Politically Incorrect Guide to American History', coupled with 'The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Constitution' are essential resources for those who are searching for exactly how the American Government has destroyed the 'American Dream' (as envisioned by the framers and ratifiers of our founding documents.) These are not theoretical books, rather, they are a recitation of the facts and actions that changed America from the Land of the Free and Hopeful, into the Home of the Dependent and Hopeless.
Viewed from the perspective of natural human behavior, nothing that has happened should be surprising, either from the side of the looters, or from the side of the looted. It has all happened many times before. Too bad it had to happen again here. As someone has wisely observed, "what we learn from history is that nobody learns anything from history".
Jesse Townsley
Enlightening And Important June 16, 2010
Judith Kopulos (AZ)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Erudite and written with clarity, this book is an invaluable guide to the many misconceptions about our Constitution and the true intentions of our founders. While the Federalist Papers are certainly an extremely important guide to original intent, they were written for the purpose of selling the Constitution to its opponents. Professor Guztman's book delves into the debate among the great thinkers of the time, their real concerns about ratification, and why they insisted that a Bill of Rights be amended to the Constitution. Dr. Gutzman, an expert on history, law, and the Constitution, has produced a succinct work that is carefully documented, compelling, and necessary for anyone interested in the study of law and constitutional history. He further demonstrates how the judicial branch of government has usurped legislative power from Congress and how our current "Constitutional" law has very little to do with our Constitution.
The 'PIG's' Poke At The Constitution May 31, 2010
S. Reid (Murfreesboro, TN United States)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Why are so many Americans left scratching their heads after each Supreme Court decision? The average American with a high school education can read the Constitution in less than an hour. In doing so, one is struck by the remarkable absence of the arcane legal language and convoluted style that have become the hallmarks of contemporary `lawyer speak.' Thus, an ordinary citizen reading the text of the Constitution, given the plain English in which it is clearly written, could be excused for believing that he has at least a marginal grasp of the supreme law of the land. Well..........he would be wrong.
In this series of the `Politically Incorrect Guides' Gutzman does a superb job in chronicling the most significant events, judgements and judges effecting how our Constitution is interpreted today. The Supreme Court, as a purposely unelected body, was originally intended to be the high priests, the guardians, the gatekeepers of our sacred document. Instead, they have wrested power from the other two branches and blatantly misapplied the law to suit their individual preferences and personal agendas. Raw political power has long since supplanted circumspect jurisprudence. The titanic struggle between `nationalists' and `states rights' proponents that permeated the original ratification convention continues today. The difference is, the proponents of state sovereignty won the tactical battle at ratification, but lost the war to the `nationalists' in the ensuing years. That contest 221 years ago is the genesis of the contemporary clash between the liberal ideology of centralized big government and the conservative's quest to return to 'original intent.'
Much of what you thought you knew is simply wrong. This book connects the dots. It explores some of the most controversial, game-changing decisions effecting every American today, and presents them in the context of their day. Gutzman explains how it all went wrong, why citizens and lawyers can look at the Constitution and see two entirely different documents, and why it matters. Finally, Gutzman proposes a potential remedy.
Gutzman's fascinating and highly readable `Incorrect Guide' should be required reading for every politician in office, for every American contemplating a run for office, for every student of history, for every civic-minded American, for everyone who loves apple pie, their spouse, puppies, or .......have I left anyone out?
Politically incorrect guide to the constitution May 29, 2010
Norma G. Inabinette (California)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Fantastic book. Very informative and inspiring. Makes you made at what is happening to our country now.
 Get informed May 29, 2010
G. Cali (Malvern, PA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This book is a very easy reading book. It provides information that we were not taught in grade school, high school and college in a format that is easy to understand.
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