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The Politically Incorrect Guide(tm) to the Constitution (Politically Incorrect Guides)
Kevin R. C. Gutzman
Regnery Publishing, Inc., 2007
Essential Reading For All Americans
+ Absolutely Fascinating
+ Politically Incorrrect Guide to the Constitution
+ Required reading for all citizens
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New Views of the Constitution
John Taylor
Gateway Editions, 2001
A States' Rights Bible
+ A Remarkable Defense of States' Rights and the Compact View
+ Still the definitive treatise on the Constitution
+ Pure Jeffersonian Republicanism
+ essential reading for political science majors
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Power Without Responsibility: How Congress Abuses the People through Delegation
David Schoenbrod
Yale University Press, 1995
A controversial work that attacks the system that allows Congress to delegate its legislative power to unelected administrative agencies and bureaucrats. Contending that delegation corrodes accountability, fails to produce effective public policy, and is unconstitutional, David Schoenbrod has written the first book that shows how delegation can be stopped.
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The Founders' Constitution (5 Volume Set)
PHILIP KURLAND, RALPH LERNER
Liberty Fund Inc., 2000
Invaluable Resource
+ An astounding, mind-boggling, wow! of a book!
+ Piviotal resource for ascertaining framer's intent
This 5-volume set is an invaluable resource for anyone interested in the historical context of the U.S. Constitution. The editors have divided the Constitution up clause by clause. For each section they provide primary, explanatory materials such as letters, records of debates, and early case ...
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Scalia Dissents: Writings of the Supreme Court's Wittiest, Most Outspoken Justice
Kevin A. Ring
Regnery Publishing, Inc., 2004
Judicial Insightful
+ Character & the Constitution- two things that don't change!
+ Great insight into Scalia's mind and legal philosophy
+ Writings of the Supreme Court's Wittiest, Most Outspoken Justice
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Presidential War Power
Louis Fisher
University Press of Kansas, 2004
Congress' Critic
+ Powerful indictment of the modern abuse of the war power
+ Congress Good, President Bad
Although some background in constitutional law may be helpful, this book is very readable. Fisher is a thorough scholar, but he is also honest in giving vent to his frustration with Congress' cessation of war power in the modern evolution of Executive-Legislative relations. This book is a great ...
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Original Intentions: On the Making and Ratification of the United States Constitution
M. E. Bradford
Univ of Georgia Pr, 1993
Should be a mandatory read for Congress.
+ One of the perennial keystones to understanding original intent
+ Difficult to read, but worth the effort
Forget Republicans and Democrats. Forget even liberals and conservatives. What we truly need, and will likely never have, are politicians who understand the principles of which M.E. Bradford chronicles here in ORIGINAL INTENTIONS: ON THE MAKING AND RATIFICATION OF THE UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION. ...
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Founding Fathers: Brief Lives of the Framers of the United States Constitution
M. E. Bradford
University Press of Kansas, 1994
The Founding Fathers: Framers of the Constitution
+ Founding Fathers
+ Great Review of the Founding Fathers
+ Can't tell the players without a program
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The Federalist: The Famous Papers on the Principles of American Government
Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, ...
MetroBooks (NY), 2002
Publius wrote a winner
It simply does not get better than this. Publius (Hamilton, Jay, Madison) wrote these essays to sell the ratification of the Constitution. They are still reference material for the US Supreme Court. Read and take these to heart if you wish to understand our government and Constitution.
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A Country I Do Not Recognize: The Legal Assault On American Values (Hoover Institution Press)
Hoover Institution Press, 2005
A sound cultural critique of the legal assault on American values...
+ Good for a law review
~A Country I Do Not Recognize: The Legal Assault on American Values~ is a trenchant critique of a legal culture gone awry. Nine learned jurists including Lino Graglia, Gary McDowell, Terry Eastland, David Davenport, Lee Casey, and David Rivkin Jr. have taken to the task of surmising the legal ...
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The Bill of Rights: Creation and Reconstruction
Akhil Reed Amar
Yale University Press, 2000
FANTASTIC!!!
+ Understanding the Bill of Rights
+ Great, except Amar doesn't quite understand his own work...
+ A Sound Overview of the Bill of Rights and Reconstruction Amendments
+ near-ultimate book on Bill of Rights
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Reclaiming the American Revolution: The Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions and Their Legacy
William Watkins
Palgrave Macmillan, 2004
A Great Study
+ American Liberty 101
+ Legally & Historically Accurate Masterpiece
+ Reclaiming the American Revolution
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Ten Tortured Words: How the Founding Fathers Tried to Protect Religion in America . . . and What's Happened ...
Stephen Mansfield
Thomas Nelson, 2007
Sabotage Agenda By Leftists
+ EXCELLENT BOOK
After searching for the book "Ten Tortured Words" on the net back in August of last year, I found there was a concerted effort by a well known Leftist blog called Daily Kos, that encouraged their readers to go on Amazon and trash the book. No matter if the reviewers had read the book or not. ...
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A Better Guide Than Reason: Federalists and Anti-Federalists (Library of Conservative Thought)
M.E. Bradford
Transaction Publishers, 1994
bradford is great
+ Excellent book
The previous review was written by a sorry excuse for a reviewer
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The American Presidency: An Intellectual History
Forrest McDonald
University Press of Kansas, 1995
This should be required reading for the entire American populace
+ McDonald the Great
+ The American Presidency: Then and Now
+ The American Presidency: An Intellectual History
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