
Clarence Thomas and the Lost Constitution
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Narrado por:
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John McLain
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Myron Magnet
When Clarence Thomas joined the Supreme Court in 1991, he found with dismay that it was interpreting a very different Constitution from the one the framers had written - the one that had established a federal government manned by the people's own elected representatives, charged with protecting citizens' inborn rights while leaving them free to work out their individual happiness themselves, in their families, communities, and states.
Thomas, had deep misgivings about the new governmental order. He shared the framers' vision of free, self-governing citizens forging their own fate. And from his own experience growing up in segregated Savannah, flirting with and rejecting Black radicalism at college, and running an agency that supposedly advanced equality, he doubted that unelected experts and justices really did understand the moral arc of the universe better than the people themselves, or that the rules and rulings they issued made lives better rather than worse. So in the hundreds of opinions he has written in more than a quarter century on the Court, he has questioned the constitutional underpinnings of the new order and tried to restore the limited, self-governing original one, as more legitimate, more just, and more free than the one that grew up in its stead. The Court now seems set to move down the trail he blazed.
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Justice Thomas is a great thinker and writer
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Great book about a GREAT MAN!
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In addition to the discussion of the two amendments, Magnet spent some time reviewing Thomas ‘opinion on McDonald v City of Chicago and what brought it about in Slaughter-House Cases and the United States v Cruikshank. This was about the 14th amendment. Magnet quotes Thomas as saying “living under Jim Crow taught me to think about the use and misuse of government powers”. Magnet points out that with the death of Justice Anton Scalia, Thomas is coming into his own with his more stringent view of originalism. Note: this is not an unbiased book. I was left with the impression that conservatives are correct and liberals cause all the problems. I do not like this when either side does it. The author should leave politics outside of an academic discussion. Overall, this was an interesting book and worth the read to understand Thomas and his far-right viewpoint on the Court.
The book is five hours and thirty-four minutes. John McLain does an excellent job narrating the book. McLain has won several Earphone Awards and was nominated in 2012 for the Audie Award.
Informative
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Interesting and informative
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Great book about Justice Thomas and our country
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exceptional story very informational
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Excellent and enlightening
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Con’s: voice sounded harsh, and somewhat condescending, like you are being lectured by your parents for unruly behavior.
Compelling story
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Facts and Opinions
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America’s Founding Values
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