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Constitution in Exile: How the Federal Government Has Seized
Power by Rewriting the Supreme Law of the Land By
Judge Andrew P. Napolitano.
What ever happened to our inalienable rights?
The U.S. Constitution is the supreme law of the land. Every member
of Congress, every president, and every federal judge has sworn
an oath to that. And the Constitution itself declares its supremacy.
But the federal government has repeatedly evaded, avoided,
and contradicted the Constitution.
Today, more than ever, the federal government is defining the
parameters of its own power, and the courts are supporting the
power-grab, according to Judge Andrew P. Napolitano in his new
book, The Constitution in Exile: How the Federal Government Has
Seized Power by Rewriting the Supreme Law of the Land.
Thomas Jefferson once said that it is the natural order of things
for government power to increase and human liberty to decrease.
Now, best-selling author Judge Andrew P. Napolitano upholds that
Jeffersonian tradition and shines a 1,000-megawatt spotlight
on presidential, congressional, and judicial abuse of power.
In The Constitution in Exile: How the Federal Government Has
Seized Power by Rewriting the Supreme Law of the Land, Judge
Napolitano describes how reckless Congresses, imperial presidents,
and compliant courts have expanded Washington's power far beyond
the constitutional constraints.
Judge Napolitano explains how lawmakers have hijacked the Constitution
and have improperly expanded their own authority by intentionally
misinterpreting key sections of the nation's founding governing
document, especially the General Welfare Clause and the Commerce
Clause. Over the years lawmakers have used these provisions to
create vast new areas of federal power, in areas of human behavior
the Constitution has reserved to the states or to individuals,
free from any government regulation.
Without using legal jargon, but with crisp clarity, Judge Napolitano
describes how Congress has essentially "purchased" unconstitutional
laws, forced the states to spend money, and regulated private
behavior by bribing states into passing laws Congress wants but
can't legislate. And, by declaring things like violence, marijuana,
and private homes to be “interstate commerce,” the
feds have disingenuously tried to regulate all aspects of our
personal lives.
"Do we still have a Constitution?" Judge Napolitano
asks. "Today the federal government recognizes no limitations
on its power. It has utterly rejected the idea, integral to the
Constitution, that it is one of limited powers, carefully and
precisely delegated. Today the federal government does whatever
it wants to do.”
In tapping the immense distrust millions of Americans have of
Big Government, Judge Napolitano also discusses, in entertaining
detail, how the nation's highest court has, over the years, devised
historically inaccurate, logically inconsistent, and outright
comical justifications for approving most of the laws proposed
by presidents and passed by Congresses.
The federal government today involves itself in vast areas of
human behavior that are, quite simply, not constitutionally permissible.
Today, the feds decide or threaten to decide:
• What the blood alcohol level for all automobile drivers should be.
• What the legal drinking age for all adults in all states should be.
• What amount of wheat a person can grow for his personal use.
• Whether a terminally ill cancer patient can grow marijuana for her personal
consumption at her doctor’s direction.
• The amount of sugar manufacturers can use in ketchup.
• The standards for rebuilding homes after a hurricane.
• The regulation of steroid use by athletes.
• The size of toilets and the strength of showers in all private homes.
• What guidelines states must use in penalizing those convicted of crimes.
• That it is a crime to call a lawyer or journalist about receiving a self-written
search warrant from the FBI.
"How did we get here? How did thirteen idealistic colonies,
founded under the rubric of freedom and individualism, not security
and Big Government, allow an out-of-control, monster federal
government to regulate the most intimate aspects of our lives?" Judge
Napolitano writes.
Judge Napolitano is a champion of personal freedom. Going back
to the time of the Civil War, the federal government has claimed
that it is the source of our freedoms; and since it gives freedoms
it thinks it can take them away. Judge Napolitano denounces that
view and argues that under the natural law tradition, our freedoms
come from our humanity, which is a gift from God. Only through
conviction by a jury after a fair trial, argues Judge Napolitano,
can our natural rights be taken away. Congress and the president
do not give rights, but they are obliged to protect them.
The Constitution in Exile: How the Federal Government Has Seized
Power by Rewriting the Supreme Law of the Land, is a rollicking
excursion into the dark corners of the law, showing how do-gooders,
busybodies, and control freaks in the federal government disregard
the limitations on Congress and the president imposed by the
Constitution, and stick their political noses in virtually every
area of human endeavor.
About the Author:
Judge Andrew P. Napolitano, author of Constitutional Chaos: What
Happens When the Government Breaks Its Own Laws, is seen by millions
daily as Fox News Channel's Senior Judicial Analyst.
A regular on The O'Reilly Factor, he broadcasts every weekday
on The Big Story and is a twice-weekly co-host on Fox & Friends.
A 1972 graduate from Princeton University and a 1975 graduate
of the University of Notre Dame Law School, Judge Napolitano
is the youngest life-tenured Superior Court judge in the history
of the State of New Jersey. For eleven years, he was adjunct
professor of law at Seton Hall Law School, where he taught constitutional
law and jurisprudence and was thrice voted most outstanding professor.
Judge Napolitano returned to private law practice in 1995.
A public speaker in nationwide demand, Judge Napolitano's articles
and commentary on current affairs have been published in The
New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Los Angeles Times,
The St. Louis Post-Dispatch, The Baltimore Sun, The (New London)
Day, The Seton Hall Law Review, The New Jersey Law Journal, and
The Newark Star-Ledger.
Testimony:
"Does anyone understand the vision of America's
founding fathers? The courts and Congress apparently don't have
a clue. But Judge Andrew P. Napolitano does, and so will you,
if you read The Constitution in Exile."
- Bill O'Reilly
"Whatever happened to states rights, limited government,
and natural law? Judge Napolitano, in his own inimitable style,
takes us on a fascinating tour of the destruction of constitutional
government. If you want to know how the federal government got
so big and fat, read this book. Agree or disagree, this book
will make you think."
- Sean Hannity
Hardcover
290 pages
6.5"x 9.5"
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