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From Parchment to Dust - The Case for Constitutional Skepticism (Hardcover)
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From Parchment to Dust - The Case for Constitutional Skepticism (Hardcover)
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Discovery Miles 5 420
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The prominent constitutional law scholar's fascinating (and yes,
mind-boggling) argument that we don't need the Constitution after
all For some, to oppose the Constitution is to oppose the American
experiment itself. But leading constitutional scholar Louis Michael
Seidman argues that our founding document has long passed its
"sell-by" date. It might sound crazy, but Seidman's arguments are
both powerful and, well, convincing. As Seidman shows,
constitutional skepticism and disobedience have been present from
the beginning of American history, even worming their way into the
Federalist Papers. And, as Seidman also points out, no one alive
today has agreed to be bound by these rules. In From Parchment to
Dust, Seidman offers a brief history of the phenomenon of
constitutional skepticism and then proceeds to a masterful takedown
of our most cherished, constitutionally enshrined institutions and
beliefs, from the Supreme Court ("an arrogant elite in robes"), to
the very concepts of civil rights, due process, and equal
protection-all of which he argues are just pretenses for preserving
a fundamentally rigged and inequitable status quo. Rather than rely
on the specific wording of a flawed and outdated document, rife
with "Madison's mistakes," Seidman proposes instead a version that
better reflects our shared values, and leaves it to people
currently alive to determine how these values will play out in
contemporary society. From Parchment to Dust is a short, sharp, and
iconoclastic book questioning the value (and ultimately the
hypocrisy) of embracing the Constitution-which, after all, was
written more than 230 years ago-as our moral and political
lodestar.
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