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

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

"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 Constitutionâ€™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 nationâ€™s earliest days to the present there has been an ethical leitmotif running through the Supreme Courtâ€™s most important decisions affecting individual rights and limited government. Not all their decisions, but manyâ€”and some of the most important ones. Like many other Americans, for years Iâ€™ve been deeply concerned about our nationâ€™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 passÃ©, that the Declaration of Independenceâ€™s ringing endorsement of republican institutions, individual rights, and limited government is outdated, that the Constitutionâ€™s creation of a representative republic belongs to a time gone by, and that the Bill of Rights is not a restraint on government but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 â€œrights.â€ Along with this woeful ignorance, and largely because of it, the Constitution of the United States of America and the Bill of Rightsâ€”rooted in republican institutions, individual rights and limited governmentâ€”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 Foundersâ€™ 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 mediaâ€™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 candidatesâ€™ pitiful and embarrassing â€œdebates.â€ While many Tea Party activists and other patriots have been valiantly fighting for core constitutional values, many of them are disarmed because theyâ€™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 Americaâ€™s future are obligated to acquire at least a basic understanding of the Constitutionâ€™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.
Country USA
Brand CREATESPACE
Manufacturer CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Binding Paperback
ItemPartNumber 147523788X
UnitCount 1
EANs 9781475237887
ReleaseDate 0000-00-00

Country	USA
Brand	CREATESPACE
Manufacturer	CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Binding	Paperback
ItemPartNumber	147523788X
UnitCount	1
EANs	9781475237887
ReleaseDate	0000-00-00

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

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