Virginia's American Revolution follows the Virginia revolutionaries from their decision for independence on May 15, 1776, through the following 60 years_when the last of them finally passed from the scene. To their surprise, the decision to break with Great Britain entailed reconsideration of virtually all of their major political and social institutions, from the established church, their aristocratic state government, and feudal land tenures to slavery and their federal relations with the other American states. Some of these issues, such as the place of the Church of England in the newly republican Virginia, received quick resolutions; others, such as the nature of the relationship between the elite and other men, were not so easily decided. All of them were considered against the backdrop of Virginia's decline from preeminence in the Revolution and early Republic to the position of just another state in the age of Jackson. By following Virginia's American Revolution from start to finish, this account shows why so many revolutionaries in the Old Dominion died doubting that their great struggle had been worth the effort.

Virginia's American Revolution follows the Virginia revolutionaries from their decision for independence on May 15, 1776, through the following 60 years-when the last of them finally passed from the scene. To their surprise, the decision to break with Great Britain entailed reconsideration of virtually all of their major political and social institutions, from the established church, their aristocratic state government, and feudal land tenures to slavery and their federal relations with the other American states. Some of these issues, such as the place of the Church of England in the newly republican Virginia, received quick resolutions; others, such as the nature of the relationship between the elite and other men, were not so easily decided. All of them were considered against the backdrop of Virginia's decline from preeminence in the Revolution and early Republic to the position of just another state in the age of Jackson. By following Virginia's American Revolution from start to finish, this account shows why so many revolutionaries in the Old Dominion died doubting that their great struggle had been worth the effort.

Think it's just judges who are trampling on the Constitution? Think again.
The fact is that government officials long ago rejected the idea that the Constitution possesses a fixed meaning limiting the U.S. government's power. Going right to the scenes of the crimes, bestselling authors Thomas E. Woods Jr. and Kevin R. C. Gutzman dissect twelve of the most egregious assaults on the Constitution.
In "Who Killed the Constitution?" Woods and Gutzman:
- REVEAL the federal government's "great gold robbery"-the flagrant assault on the Constitution you never heard about in history class
- DESTROY the phony case for presidential war power
- EXPOSE how the federal government has actively discriminated to end . . . discrimination
"Who Killed the Constitution?" is a rallying cry for Americans outraged by a government run amok and a warning to take heed before we lose the liberties we are truly entitled to.
"If you want to know why the federal government regulates the air you breathe, the water you drink, and the words you speak, read "Who Killed the Constitution?" . . . When the history of these unfree times is written, Tom Woods's and Kevin Gutzman's fearless work will be recognized as the standard against which all others are measured."
-Judge Andrew Napolitano, Fox News senior judicial analyst and bestselling author of "The Constitution in Exile"
"It's about time someone shouted out that the emperor has no clothes."
-Kirkpatrick Sale, director of the Middlebury Institute and author of Human Scale