Wrong and dangerous : ten right-wing myths about our constitution / Garrett Epps.
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- KF4550 .E665 2012
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KF4550 D34 2001 How democratic is the American Constitution? / | KF4550 D34 2001 How democratic is the American Constitution? / | KF4550 D34 2001 How democratic is the American Constitution? / | KF4550 .E665 2012 Wrong and dangerous : ten right-wing myths about our constitution / | KF4550 E67 2011 Constitutional law for a changing America : institutional powers and constraints / | KF4550 E67 2011 Constitutional law for a changing America : institutional powers and constraints / | KF4550 .K34 1992 Legitimacy and history : self-government in American constitutional theory |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-200) and index.
The right is "originalist," everyone else is "idiotic" -- The 'purpose' of the constitution is to limit Congress -- Congress has stretched the commerce power beyond its proper limits -- The constitution doesn't separate church and state -- Equality and self-government are "wholly foreign to the first amendment" -- The second amendment allows citizens to threaten government -- The tenth amendment protects "states' rights," and "state sovereignty" -- The fourteenth amendment is obsolete and irrelevant -- Election of senators destroys "states' rights" -- International law is a threat to the constitution.
Legal scholar Garrett Epps identifies ten myths that he believes the Far Right is spreading about the United States Constitution, arguing that they are trying to wipe out the facts and substitute partisan myth.