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The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Constitution
Kevin GutzmanSeries: Politically Incorrect Guides4.1
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What gives unelected judges the right to decide hot-button issues? Judges say it's the Constitution. But law professor Kevin Gutzman shows that there is very little relationship between the Constitution ratified by the thirteen states more than two centuries ago and the “constitutional law” imposed upon us since then.
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"Although written in a pleasant, accessible style,The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Constitution is the most important introduction to the subject ever written, and one that will challenge and enlighten anyone who reads it. This sweeping review of our Constitution and its history is at once fascinating, infuriating (there are far more bad guys in American history than you thought), and imposs
Thomas E. Woods, senior fellow, the Ludwig von Mises Institute, and New York Times bestsel
"The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Constitution is an interesting, informative, and funt-to-read romp through American constitutional history from an extremely skeptical point of view. Gutzman argues for a return to the system of limited national government contemplated by the Framers. He has provided in essence a book-length demonstration of the fact that the Constitution has very little to
Lino A. Graglia, A. Dalton Cross Professor of Law, University of Texas Law School
"Very few Americans-and even fewer lawyers, judges, and scholars-understand that the Constitution they revere is not the Constitution bequeathed by the Founding Fathers. Ambition, ignorance, vested interests, the lust for power, false assumptions, distorted judicial postures, and the hard knocks of history have changed it into something never dreamed of by its creators. Few things are more importa
Clyde Wilson, professor of history, University of South Carolina