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Title: The Conscience of the Constitution
Source: Amazon
URL Source: [None]
Published: Jan 19, 2015
Author: Timothy Sandefur
Post Date: 2015-01-19 13:50:48 by tpaine
Keywords: None
Views: 3518
Comments: 20

The Conscience of the Constitution

The Conscience of the Constitution: The Declaration of Independence and the Right to Liberty documents a vital, forgotten truth: our Constitution was written not to empower democracy, but to secure liberty. In fact, the word "democracy" does not occur in either the Constitution or the Declaration of Independence. Yet, to author and constitutional scholar Timothy Sandefur, 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. "Liberty comes first and order arises from it," states Sandefur. "We have gone astray in our constitutional understanding because we have upended that relationship."

The Conscience of the Constitution traces this upheaval back to the timeless conflict between freedom and power that gave rise to the Civil War and that was revived again by the Supreme Court's disastrous ruling in the 1873 Slaughter-House cases. Sandefur then examines the origins of controversial legal theories such as "substantive due process" and "judicial activism" and defends them against a wave of arguments from both left and the right. Although both sides of the political spectrum criticize the courts today for protecting individual rights too effectively, Sandefur shows that in reality judges have often abdicated their duty to rein in government abuses.

Today, more and more Americans are witnessing their individual freedoms threatened and destroyed by the continually expanding grasp of government. While Americans will always differ over important political issues, our Constitution was meant to ensure that some things should not be settled by majority vote. In The Conscience of the Constitution, Timothy Sandefur presents a dramatic, richly compelling new challenge to the status quo of constitutional law.

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Information also at:
The Conscience of the Constitution: The Declaration of Independence and the Right to Liberty (Cato Institute, 2014) .

I notice you don't post the "URL Source"....it would be nice if you did.

Thanks, in advance.

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