The Conscience of the Constitution: The Declaration of Independence and the Right to Liberty - Softcover

Sandefur, Timothy

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1939709695 ISBN 13: 9781939709691

Verlag: CATO INST, 2015

Inhaltsangabe

Timothy Sandefur's insightful book provides a dramatic new challenge to the status quo of constitutional law and argues a vital truth: our Constitution was written not to empower democracy, but to secure liberty. Yet the overemphasis on democracy by today's legal community-rather than the primacy of liberty, as expressed in the Declaration of Independence-has helped expand the scope of government power at the expense of individual rights. Now, more than ever, the Declaration of Independence should be the framework for interpreting our fundamental law. It is the conscience of the Constitution.

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Timothy Sandefur is vice president for litigation at the Goldwater Institute, where he oversees the legal staff and holds the Clarence J. and Katherine P. Duncan Chair in Constitutional Government. He has litigated important cases involving economic liberty, private property, and other individual rights. Sandefur is the author of six books—The Ascent of Jacob Bronowski (2019), Frederick Douglass: Self-Made Man (2018), Cornerstone of Liberty: Property Rights in 21st Century America (second edition, coauthored with Christina Sandefur, 2016), and The Permission Society (2016).

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: CATO INST
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2015
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1939709695
• ISBN 13: 9781939709691
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 200
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