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Binding: HardcoverDewey Decimal Number: 347.73260264 EAN: 9781595230508 ISBN: 1595230505 Label: Sentinel HC Manufacturer: Sentinel HC Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 320 Publication Date: May 01, 2008 Publisher: Sentinel HC Studio: Sentinel HC Editorial Review: Product Description: A non-lawyers guide to the worst Supreme Court decisions of the modern era The Dirty Dozen takes on twelve Supreme Court cases that changed American historyand yet are not well known to most Americans. Starting in the New Deal era, the Court has allowed breathtaking expansions of government power that significantly reduced individual rights and abandoned limited federal government as envisioned by the founders. For example: Helvering v. Davis (1937) allowed the government to take money from some and give it to others, without any meaningful constraints Wickard v. Filburn (1942) let Congress use the interstate commerce clause to regulate even the most trivial activitiesneither interstate nor commerce Kelo v. City of New London (2005) declared that the government can seize private property and transfer it to another private owner Levy and Mellor untangle complex Court opinions to explain how The Dirty Dozen harmed ordinary Americans. They argue for a Supreme Court that will enforce what the Constitution actually says about civil liberties, property rights, racial preferences, gun ownership, and many other controversial issues. Average Rating:
 Rating:  - good complement to Barnett's Restoring the Lost ConstitutionThis book is a good complement to Randy Barnett's _Restoring the Lost Constitution_. _The Dirty Dozen_ looks at twelve bad Supreme Court decisions that have effectively erased some of the explicit constitutional limits on the federal government and reduced individual freedom. The preface by Richard Epstein expresses a few minor disagreements about some of the cases chosen, and the end of the book explains why Roe v. Wade and Bush v. Gore didn't make the cut. Those that did include Korematsu v. United ... Read More Rating: - FearI listened to Robert Levy on Harvard Book Club. The man is brilliant. To the extent that the book claims that the Supreme Court failed to interpret the constitution in a reasonable manner, the book is one-man's opinion of what the constitutional law should be. Levy criticizes the notion of a "living, breathing" constitution because it encourages "judicial policy-making." Yet, this is what the law interpreters have done since Roman and Norman times. Law has never been a fixed rule, in our common-law ... Read More Rating: - Outstanding - one of the best I have readI have read the Constitution several times and it has always been a mystery to me how many (if not most) laws are permissible by our courts and deemed congruent with our founding fathers vision. This book no only addresses my confusion but does it in a clear entertaining style free of Latin and other confusing "legalese". I highly recommend this well written engaging book. Rating: - An expertly crafted and harsh criticism of the courtsThe Supreme Court is governed by humans, and humans do make errors."The Dirty Dozen: How Twelve Supreme Court Cases Radically Expanded Government and Eroded Freedom" is an examination of these mistakes that have cost America dearly. Pointing out cases in which the Supreme Court has bumbled and allowed the federal government to interfere with private contracts or political support, detain prisoners charge, wrongfully seize property, and other misdeeds of the court, "The Dirty Dozen" is an expertly crafted ... Read More Rating: - A superb exposition of how the defenders of the Constitution have eroded our freedom"Regrettably, the [Supreme] court has too often taken the plain wording of the Constitution and interpreted it to mean exactly the opposite of what the Founding Fathers intended. By that process the Court profoundly altered the American legal, political, and economic landscape." So begins Richard Epstein's forward to this truly remarkable book. The authors, Robert Levy, of the Cato Institute, and William Mellor, of the Institute of Justice, have chosen twelve Supreme Court cases ... Read More |
