
We the People
A Progressive Reading of the Constitution for the Twenty-First Century
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Peter Berkrot
Worried about what a super-conservative majority on the Supreme Court means for the future of civil liberties? From gun control to reproductive health, a conservative court will reshape the lives of all Americans for decades to come. The time to develop and defend a progressive vision of the US Constitution that protects the rights of all people is now.
University of California Berkeley Dean and respected legal scholar Erwin Chemerinsky expertly exposes how conservatives are using the Constitution to advance their own agenda that favors business over consumers and employees and government power over individual rights.
But exposure is not enough. Progressives have spent too much of the last 45 years trying to preserve the legacy of the Warren Court's most important rulings and reacting to the Republican-dominated Supreme Courts by criticizing their erosion of rights - but have not yet developed a progressive vision for the Constitution itself. Yet, if we just look to the promise of the Preamble - liberty and justice for all - and take seriously its vision, a progressive reading of the Constitution can lead us forward as we continue our fight ensuring democratic rule, effective government, justice, liberty, and equality.
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Great points with facts to back them up!
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Powerful tools for evaluating the Supreme Court
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Very compelling analysis of the US constitution
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every American should read and/or listen.
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great work and superior analysis
prescient vision from 2018
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I do believe that the constitution is a living document and a plain text reading of the same does more injustice as the constitution ought to be adapted for changing times. But, the foundational values that are to be used to interpret and evolve are something we need to agree on and the author of this book should be given some recognition in attempting to discuss the same but this is where it goes haywire.
As the author argues in the second chapter how an abstract view of something could be stretched so thin that it can be used to explain any possible outcome. Well, the author falls into the same pit as he takes such an abstract view of just the preamble to fit all the policy measures that he wishes were reality that the book reads like propaganda than an erudite reading of the constitution. For example, he discusses liberty but doesn't explain why liberty that is promised to all citizens is not ascertained to businessmen who have rational self-interest to make more money. The author doesn't discuss the biggest challenge of our time, individualism vs collectivism.
The constitution is more than just the preamble. I agree that the preamble is a real important piece of the document and one ought to start there to understand the core but that doesn't make the rest of document a period drama fluff. The author should have had the guts to put the entire text of the constitution under the microscope to see how a progressive would find meaning in the same but this is such a meaningless propaganda endeavor that you walk away just annoyed.
Hypocritical evaluation of the constitution
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despicable inhumane
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