Name: A Republic We Can Keep
SKU: 69147873
Price: 796.00 TWD
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Author: Robert J. Berry
ISBN: 9798171787332

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Robert J. Berry

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356

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A Republic We Can Keep

Robert J. Berry (Author) · Independently published · Physical Book

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Synopsis "A Republic We Can Keep"

The Constitution you're defending no longer exists. The four pages under glass in the National Archives are not what governs you. What governs you is two centuries of judicial gloss laid over them - a constitution no one ratified, revised five votes at a time, that can grant a right for fifty years and revoke it in an afternoon. Every faction in American politics has learned the lesson: don't amend, litigate. The result is a government in which the branches have traded jobs, the lawmaking machinery hasn't been repaired since 1933, and every hand on the machine is paid to keep it that way. Robert J. Berry spent years inside the Federalist Papers, translating all eighty-five into modern English. He came out convinced that the men who built the American system were better engineers than we remember - and that the machine they built is no longer the machine we're running. This book is his answer, made the way they made theirs: a complete, finished constitution, argued provision by provision, its objections met and its prices printed, with the full text in the back. Not a repair. A replacement - proposed the founders' way, and offered to the only people who ever had the right to choose. Robert J. Berry is the author of Founding Logic, a translation of the complete Federalist Papers into modern English, and The Constitution Under Load. He publishes as Vox Republica.