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Constitutional Chaos: What Happens When the Government Breaks Its Own Laws Manufacturer: Thomas Nelson List price: $14.99 50 new & used available from $5.55. |
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In this incisive and insightful book, Judge Andrew P. Napolitano peels back the legal veneer and shows how politicians, judges, prosecutors, and bureaucrats are trampling the U.S. Constitution in the name of law and order and fighting terrorism. Napolitano reveals how they:
Pundits on the right, left, and center have praised Constitutional Chaos for its penetrating examination of our rights and liberties in the post-9/11 world.
"Has the war on terrorism taken away some of your rights? In a non-ideological way, Judge Andrew P. Napolitano answers that crucial question. This book will open your eyes."-Bill O'Reilly
"This book is a wake-up call for all who value personal freedom and limited government."-Rush Limbaugh
"In all of the American media, Judge Napolitano is the most persistent, uncompromising guardian of both the letter and the spirit of the Constitution. . ."-Nat Hentoff
Judge Andrew P. Napolitano is Fox News Channel's senior judicial analyst, seen by millions on The Big Story with John Gibson, The O'Reilly Factor, Fox and Friends, and other shows. His articles and commentaries have been published in the Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Newark Star Ledger, and other national publications. |
Constitutional Chaos: What Happens When the Government Breaks Its Own Laws
Customer Reviews / Constitutional Chaos: What Happens When the Government Breaks Its Own Laws
| Judge Napolitano provides dozens of fact-filled stories showing how our government violates the law -- with virtual impunity. The details of the government's role in the massacre of helpless children held hostage in Waco, Texas is especially chilling. As unchecked government power expands, the rights of citizens are slipping away. |
| This was the first of Judge Andrew Napolitano's books on the usurpation of the Constitution. In this book he introduces us to his philosophy as it evolved from GOP conservatism to libertarian individualism while serving on the bench in New Jersey. The book is 198 pages long with a text of the U.S. Constitution and the Bill of Rights and a short index. The book in essence described the court rulings that have allowed the government to take on a "do as I say, not as I do" brand of police justice that has led to numerous charges of entrapment and abuse of Fourth Amendment rights. As with his later books, Napolitano spares neither party as he attacked Bush's war policy after 9/11 and Clinton's use of force at Waco, Miami and Ruby Ridge. The debate of whether government has overstep its bounds might be up in the air for some, but for me there is no question that the misreading of various clauses in the Constitution has given the gang in DC maximum power.
A five-star effort for the Judge's first book. |
| I have not finished it yet and I am ready to get the pitchforks and torches, figuratively. In recent years, the government has been shaking my belief in government and I have been reading the founding fathers who considered government a necessary evil that must necessarily be kept in check to avoid it becoming a tyrant. Well tyranny seems to be here. But now reading the cases in this book...shows me it has been even more corrupt in so many ways for a long time. I can see now how ordinary law-abiding citizens can be falsely imprisoned and targeted by any government body that has an ax to grind, or even accidentally because of where you are or what you do. God forbid, you look like a likely suspect because the conviction rate is extremely high and none of us believe that is an accident or good detective work. Some of it is because they don't follow the rules we are expected to follow. Do I think that allowing some innocent folks to be in jail to be sure you have all the bad guys is ok?..NO! Thank God neither does the Judge! I am so glad I read this and I will read more of his works now. This must read is a stunning eye opener. |
| I really wanted to read about how we can get our judges to protect our Constitution. Unfortunately, after three chapters, I had to stop reading this one. They were all the same! Basically illustrations of how bad the judges were - how they were using the bench to their own ends rather than meting out justice. And they all got away with it! Really depressing! |
| Because I am so upset at the present Obama administration and Congress and their continual shredding and violation of our country's rule of constitutional law, this is the first of ten books I have purchased and will read this summer.
I am perhaps, not your regular reader of legal books. During an earlier five year period, I studied the law as a pro se litigant. As part of my personal legal training program, I read many law books and between 40 and 50 Supreme Court decisions in detail, learned how to do legal research and write legal briefs, and I drove the highways looking for traffic tickets so that I could fight them in court. For me, this was wonderful training program because it taught me how the law works, and without me suffering any more loss than my time and energy. I also served on a criminal court jury in which I was able to overturn a conviction of what I was able to convince the rest of the jury was an innocent man (yes, I believe in jury nullification of bad law). When I read the Judge's book, I was immediately amazed to find that what the Judge was saying was consistent with my own personal experience. This was gratifying, but for me, he was preaching to the choir. I like this judge and his easy-to-read book because he tells it like it is - this is an excellent book for readers not familiar with our legal system, want to learn the practical side of the law, believe things have gone sideways legally in our country, and who believe that we Americans have been kept ignorant of the law for too long. It's a really good first book of awareness of the problems we are seeing in our government, and BTW, the problems ARE really as bad as the Judge tells us. We need to fix our country and get it back on its constitutional course and under our control. This is not going to be an easy job for us voters, but Constitutional Chaos is a great starter book As a side note, I'm enrolled in our local college for another degree, earning excellent grades, and our law school won't let me take a simple constitutional law course. The reason they wont: the ABA doesn't allow anyone but matriculated law school students to take law courses. The lawyer's union (ABA) is keeping tight controls on who is allowed to learn the law, as though understanding the law was some kind of higher level or privileged knowledge. It's not. Anyone can learn the law, and Constitutional Chaos is a great beginning. Become legally savvy, because in our nation with over 2 million laws, you need to know where you stand legally and how you can legally determine your own future. Buy this book. Study it. Learn from it. |
Constitutional Chaos: What Happens When the Government Breaks Its Own Laws
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