How to read the Constitution and why / Kim Wehle.
Publisher's description: Whatever your party affiliation or politics, your beliefs need to start with an understanding of the Constitution, the 1789 document on which our government is based. Why are there three branches of government? What is executive privilege? What is meant by the Bill of R...
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New York, NY :
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers,
[2019]
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- The basics : each branch has a job description - and two bosses
- Congress : lots of power to a herd of cats
- The (real) powers of the President : no more kings
- The courts : what was that about kings?
- Speech, religion, and the First Amendment
- Guns and the Second Amendment
- Crime and the Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, and Eighth Amendments
- Liberty and equality : Fifth and Fourteenth amendments
- What does the Constitution say about the states?
- Why it matters how politicians get hired and fired
- If the Constitution stops functioning, why should I care?
- Sustaining democracy : some takeaways.