Modern Constitutions

From a #1 New York Times bestselling author, podcast host, and legal expert comes an accessible and modern guide on how to read and understand the U.S. Constitution. Think of this as the U.S. Constitution explained by America’s favorite law professor, Melissa Murray. On her podcast, Strict...

Our political landscape is a battlefield of noise. We are armed with talking points but starved of principles. This book is the remedy. The final volume in the acclaimed U.S. Constitution: Our Common Ground series , Liberty in the Modern Age confronts the most pressing 21st-century challenges to American freedom. This is not another partisan book to tell you what to think. It is a tool to teach you how to think , silencing the noise by returning to the foundational texts of the republic. Author David Michael Curtis provides a clear, logical framework for analyzing the new frontiers of the ...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A call to reform our antiquated political institutions before it’s too late—from the authors of How Democracies Die “[Levitsky and Ziblatt] write with terrifying clarity about how the forces of the right have co-opted the enshrined rules to exert their tyranny...

A work of extraordinary range and striking originality, The Gun, the Ship, and the Pen traces the global history of written constitutions from the 1750s to the 20th century, modifying accepted narratives and uncovering the close connections between the making of constitutions and the making of war. In the process, Linda Colley both reappraises famous constitutions and recovers those that have been marginalized but were central to the rise of a modern world.

This “must read” reveals a side of American history that you’ve never heard of before. The author, The John Birch Society CEO Art Thompson devoted much of his life to uncovering the agenda behind common historic events and organizes it in a way for the reader to think for himself. By not accepting everything taught in schools as fact, this book will raise patriotic Americans to their feet to educate others in the essential task of preserving liberty and independence for future generations.

Starting not with the United States but with the Corsican constitution of 1755, The Gun, the Ship, and the Pen moves through every continent, disrupting accepted narratives. Both monarchs and radicals play a role, from Catherine the Great of Russia, with her remarkable Nakaz, to Sierra Leone's James Africanus Horton, to Tunisia's Khayr-al-Din, a creator of the first modern Islamic constitution. Throughout, Colley demonstrates how constitutions evolved in tandem with warfare, and how they have functioned to advance empire as well as promote nations.

I believe it is the focus on religion that represents one of the major problems of the First Amendment. If you focus only on protecting freedom of religion, you ignore the other areas of expression, especially the opposite of religion which is atheism. Shouldn’t there be a freedom to unbelief? By ignoring the wider concept of freedom of philosophy, you set the stage for a distorted perspective on freedom of speech. This ignores the freedom of people not to believe as well as the freedom of people to create entirely new fields that are influenced by science and the pursuit of new knowledge...

Call to Courage: For Those Who Believe in Character, Country, and Conscience (The Call to Courage Series by Judith Ancrest) If you believe in character, country, and conscience, this moment requires more than loyalty — it requires courage. In Call to Courage, Judith Ancrest offers a thoughtful, principled examination of how the Republican Party has evolved — and what that evolution means for constitutional conservatives who value truth, integrity, and service to the nation. This book is written for those who feel the tension between party allegiance and personal conviction — and who ...

The enemies of man include both left and right. In order to decide what our futures should be, we must understand what left and right have in common, and what is keeping us from advancing proper principles. We should understand what is wrong with both left and right.

From the nation's most peripatetic civil liberties lawyer comes a "dazzling and stimulating" exploration of how the creation of the ten commandments provides the origins to today's law (Library Journal). Alan Dershowitz is one of America's most famous litigation experts. In the Genesis of...