The American Constitution and Ayn Rand's "Inner Contradiction"

Henry Mark Holzer

ISBN 10: 147523788X / ISBN 13: 9781475237887

Editore: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2012

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• Titolo: The American Constitution and Ayn Rand's "Inner Contradiction"
• Editore: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Data di pubblicazione: 2012
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 147523788X
• ISBN 13: 9781475237887
• Rilegatura: Soft cover
• Condizione: As New
• Tipo di libro: Book
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"The American Constitution and Ayn Rand's 'Inner Contradiction'" has been written for two reasons. First, to provide patriotic Americans with an overview of the Constitution s most important provisions as interpreted by the Supreme Court of the United States. At the same time, I want to demonstrate something unknown to virtually all Americans: that foundational to every political, social, economic, and legal system are ethical principles, and that from our nation s earliest days to the present there has been an ethical leitmotif running through the Supreme Court s most important decisions affecting individual rights and limited government. Not all their decisions, but many and some of the most important ones.Like many other Americans, for years I ve been deeply concerned about our nation s future. My fears have been exacerbated in the past three years because of the often lawless, anti-American, recklessly incompetent reign of Barack Obama. Worse, his presidency will continue for another year. Even worse, he might be reelected.In light of that possibility, consider a recent report in The Weekly Standard of a survey commissioned by the American Revolution Center, which found that nearly 83 percent of Americans failed a simple test of knowledge about the founding of the United States of America. Many of our fellow citizens believe that the founding principles of this nation are passé, that the Declaration of Independence s ringing endorsement of republican institutions, individual rights, and limited government is outdated, that the Constitution s creation of a representative republic belongs to a time gone by, and that the Bill of Rights is not a restraint on government but rather a source of newly found, invented rights. Along with this woeful ignorance, and largely because of it, the Constitution of the United States of America and the Bill of Rights rooted in republican institutions, individual rights and limited government are under an unprecedented attack by Barack Obama and his far left Democratic Party, aided and abetted by the complicit mainstream media, unions, academia, and entertainment industry. To say nothing of many courts, including the Supreme Court of the United States in more than a few cases.Employing and legitimizing the exercise of statist power, the Supreme Court of the United States has facilitated state legislatures and Congress in their sacrifice of individual rights to the common good, and made a mockery of the Founders creation of a limited government.But with a few notable exceptions there is hardly any knowledgeable, explicit and principled defense of our Constitution and Bill of Rights to be found anywhere.Not on radio, television, or in Hollywood. Not in the press. Not at the grassroots. Certainly not in academia. Nor, sadly, emanating from many Republicans, Conservatives, and Libertarians. Most of the media s pontificating so-called constitutional experts, especially those on national television, usually do more harm than good because they spread disinformation that is neither knowledgeable nor principled. And note, for example, the Republican presidential candidates pitiful and embarrassing debates. While many Tea Party activists and other patriots have been valiantly fighting for core constitutional values, many of them are disarmed because they ve been taught little about American constitutional law. In order to defend the Constitution and the Bill of Rights, everyone fighting for America today needs to know much more about these two documents than most of them know.Those who are committed to fighting for America s future are obligated to acquire at least a basic understanding of the Constitution s origins and birth, its written text, the manner in which it has been deliberately violated, and the consequences of how it has been deliberately misinterpreted by its enemies.