We The People And The President
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We The People And The President
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Author : PJ Creek
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2021-12-07
We The People And The President written by PJ Creek and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-12-07 with Juvenile Nonfiction categories.
Teachers have examined many facets of the US presidency and turned facts into graphics to communicate interesting statistics.
We The People
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Author : Clifford Sanders
language : en
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Release Date : 2009-07
We The People written by Clifford Sanders and has been published by Xlibris Corporation this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-07 with Political Science categories.
What a great day when America looked beyond color and chose a man of integrity, character, a spirit of inclusion, and the heart of a servant to be the 44th U.S. President. A working class citizen who rose from humble beginnings, the President believes that a perfect union allows all people of color, class, and socioeconomic background access to America's riches. All these things which make him loved among working Americans are the same reasons he is loathed among men within a secret society who have sworn allegiance to destroy both him and America. In the midst of $18 billion in CEO bonuses, $70 billion in corporate bank bail-outs, in spite of record breaking lay-offs, unemployment, foreclosures, and citizen suffering, the members of this secret society remain wealthy! You may ask, "How is this possible? How could I have been deceived for so long?" The answer is revealed in the pages of this honest and provocative look at America's politics and the media. Professor of criminology Clifford Sanders exposes the secret society and how they have controlled politics, America's beliefs, and the economic system for decades. Everyone who loves America should discover how they are being deceived, manipulated, and destroyed by some of the least likely candidates.
The Presidents And The People Five Leaders Who Threatened Democracy And The Citizens Who Fought To Defend It
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Author : Corey Brettschneider
language : en
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Release Date : 2024-07-02
The Presidents And The People Five Leaders Who Threatened Democracy And The Citizens Who Fought To Defend It written by Corey Brettschneider and has been published by W. W. Norton & Company this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-07-02 with History categories.
American presidents have often pushed the boundaries established for them by the Constitution; this is the inspirational history of the people who pushed back. Imagine an American president who imprisoned critics, spread a culture of white supremacy, and tried to upend the law so that he could commit crimes with impunity. In this propulsive and eminently readable history, constitutional law and political science professor Corey Brettschneider provides a thoroughly researched account of assaults on democracy by not one such president but five. John Adams waged war on the national press of the early republic, overseeing numerous prosecutions of his critics. In the lead-up to the Civil War, James Buchanan colluded with the Supreme Court to deny constitutional personhood to African Americans. A decade later, Andrew Johnson urged violence against his political opponents as he sought to guarantee a white supremacist republic after the Civil War. In the 1910s, Woodrow Wilson modernized, popularized, and nationalized Jim Crow laws. In the 1970s, Richard Nixon committed criminal acts that flowed from his corrupt ideas about presidential power. Through their actions, these presidents illuminated the trip wires that can damage or even destroy our democracy. Corey Brettschneider shows that these presidents didn’t have the last word; citizen movements brought the United States back from the precipice by appealing to a democratic understanding of the Constitution and pressuring subsequent reform-minded presidents to realize the promise of “We the People.” This is a book about citizens—Frederick Douglass, Ida B. Wells, Daniel Ellsberg, and more—who fought back against presidential abuses of power. Their examples give us hope about the possibilities of restoring a fragile democracy.
The Oath And The Office A Guide To The Constitution For Future Presidents
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Author : Corey Brettschneider
language : en
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Release Date : 2018-09-18
The Oath And The Office A Guide To The Constitution For Future Presidents written by Corey Brettschneider and has been published by W. W. Norton & Company this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-09-18 with Political Science categories.
"A cleareyed, accessible, and informative primer: vital reading for all Americans." —Kirkus Reviews, starred review Can the president launch a nuclear attack without congressional approval? Is it ever a crime to criticize the president? Can states legally resist a president’s executive order? In today’s fraught political climate, it often seems as if we must become constitutional law scholars just to understand the news from Washington, let alone make a responsible decision at the polls. The Oath and the Office is the book we need, right now and into the future, whether we are voting for or running to become president of the United States. Constitutional law scholar and political science professor Corey Brettschneider guides us through the Constitution and explains the powers—and limits—that it places on the presidency. From the document itself and from American history’s most famous court cases, we learn why certain powers were granted to the presidency, how the Bill of Rights limits those powers, and what “we the people” can do to influence the nation’s highest public office—including, if need be, removing the person in it. In these brief yet deeply researched chapters, we meet founding fathers such as James Madison and Alexander Hamilton, as well as key figures from historic cases such as Brown v. Board of Education and Korematsu v. United States. Brettschneider breathes new life into the articles and amendments that we once read about in high school civics class, but that have real impact on our lives today. The Oath and the Office offers a compact, comprehensive tour of the Constitution, and empowers all readers, voters, and future presidents with the knowledge and confidence to read and understand one of our nation’s most important founding documents.
You The People
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Author : Vanessa B. Beasley
language : en
Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
Release Date : 2011-11-07
You The People written by Vanessa B. Beasley and has been published by Texas A&M University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-11-07 with Political Science categories.
New in paperback As we ask anew in these troubled times what it means to be an American, You, the People provides perspective by casting its eye over the answers given by past U.S. presidents in their addresses to the public. Who is an American, and who is not? And yet, as Vanessa Beasley demonstrates in this eloquent exploration of a century of presidential speeches, the questions are not new. Since the Founders first identified the nation as “we, the people,” the faces and accents of U.S. citizens have changed dramatically due to immigration and other constitutive changes. U.S. presidents have often spoken as if there were one monolithic American people. Here Beasley traces rhetorical constructions of American national identity in presidents’ inaugural addresses and state of the union messages from 1885 through 2000. She argues convincingly that while the demographics of the voting citizenry changed rapidly during this period, presidential definitions of American national identity did not. Chief executives have consistently employed a rhetoric of American nationalism that is simultaneously inclusive and exclusive; Beasley examines both the genius and the limitations of this language.
We The People Volume 2
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Author : Bruce Ackerman
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 1991
We The People Volume 2 written by Bruce Ackerman and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1991 with History categories.
These are the crucial episodes in American constitutional history that Ackerman takes up in this second volume of a trilogy hailed as "one of the most important contributions to American constitutional thought in the last half-century" (Cass Sunstein, The New Republic). In each case he shows how the American people--whether led by the Founding Federalists or the Lincoln Republicans or the Roosevelt Democrats--have confronted the Constitution in its moments of great crisis with dramatic acts of upheaval, always in the name of popular sovereignty. A thoroughly new way of understanding constitutional development, We the People, Volume 2: Transformations reveals how America's "dualist democracy" provides for these populist upheavals that amend the Constitution, often without formalities. The book also sets contemporary events, such as the Reagan Revolution and Roe v. Wade, in deeper constitutional perspective.
We The People Volume 2
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Author : Bruce Ackerman
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 2000-09-15
We The People Volume 2 written by Bruce Ackerman and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000-09-15 with History categories.
Constitutional change, seemingly so orderly, formal, and refined, has in fact been a revolutionary process from the first, as Bruce Ackerman makes clear in We the People, Volume 2: Transformations. The Founding Fathers, hardly the genteel conservatives of myth, set America on a remarkable course of revolutionary disruption and constitutional creativity that endures to this day. After the bloody sacrifices of the Civil War, Abraham Lincoln and the Republican Party revolutionized the traditional system of constitutional amendment as they put principles of liberty and equality into higher law. Another wrenching transformation occurred during the Great Depression, when Franklin Roosevelt and his New Dealers vindicated a new vision of activist government against an assault by the Supreme Court. These are the crucial episodes in American constitutional history that Ackerman takes up in this second volume of a trilogy hailed as “one of the most important contributions to American constitutional thought in the last half-century” (Cass Sunstein, The New Republic). In each case he shows how the American people—whether led by the Founding Federalists or the Lincoln Republicans or the Roosevelt Democrats—have confronted the Constitution in its moments of great crisis with dramatic acts of upheaval, always in the name of popular sovereignty. A thoroughly new way of understanding constitutional development, We the People, Volume 2: Transformations reveals how America’s “dualist democracy” provides for these populist upheavals that amend the Constitution, often without formalities. The book also sets contemporary events, such as the Reagan Revolution and Roe v. Wade, in deeper constitutional perspective. In this context Ackerman exposes basic constitutional problems inherited from the New Deal Revolution and exacerbated by the Reagan Revolution, then considers the fundamental reforms that might resolve them. A bold challenge to formalist and fundamentalist views, this volume demonstrates that ongoing struggle over America’s national identity, rather than consensus, marks its constitutional history.
We The People
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Author : Peter Spier
language : en
Publisher: Doubleday Books for Young Readers
Release Date : 2014-05-27
We The People written by Peter Spier and has been published by Doubleday Books for Young Readers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-05-27 with Juvenile Nonfiction categories.
The U.S. Constitution brought to life for young readers! In this visual celebration of the U.S. Constitution and America's founding fathers, Caldecott Medalist Peter Spier tells the stirring American tale of how this most important document came to symbolize freedom, justice, equality, and hope for all citizens. This fact-filled volume includes: ★ The complete text of the Constitution ★ An illustrated preamble to the Constitution, illuminating its signifcance from its birth through to modern times ★ The fascinating history of the struggle to create and ratify the Constitution ★ An historical reproduction of the original document Full of illustrations that bring the Constitution to life, this is a must-have resource for every American school, library, and home. ★ "A joyful celebration of the people whose leaders created the Constitution"—Booklist, starred review “A celebration of America’s diversity”—Kirkus “Spier has created a tribute that can be appreciated in more than one sitting.”—Publishers Weekly
We The People Grades 5 8
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Author : Daniel S. Campagna
language : en
Publisher: Mark Twain Media
Release Date : 2008-09-03
We The People Grades 5 8 written by Daniel S. Campagna and has been published by Mark Twain Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-09-03 with Juvenile Nonfiction categories.
Bring history to life for students in grades 5 and up with We the People! Students love learning about the U.S. government from this engaging classroom supplemental text. Lessons in this 96-page book cover all three branches and levels of the government, a response to the tragic events of September 11, 2001, and a contact list of government agencies and organizations. Lesson topics also include the Liberty Bell, elections, the American flag, money, public opinion, and the Constitution. The book includes Web resources, a bibliography, various activities, and an answer key.
A More Perfect Union
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Author : Ben Carson, MD
language : en
Publisher: Penguin
Release Date : 2015-10-06
A More Perfect Union written by Ben Carson, MD and has been published by Penguin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-10-06 with Political Science categories.
Dear Reader, Many people have wondered why I’ve been speaking out on controversial issues for the last few years. They say I’ve never held political office. I’m not a constitutional scholar. I’m not even a lawyer. All I can say to that is “Guilty as charged.” It’s true that I’ve never voted for a budget America could not afford. I’ve never raised anyone’s taxes. And I’ve never promised a lobbyist anything in exchange for a donation. Luckily, none of that really matters. Our founding fathers didn’t want a permanent governing class of professional politicians. They wanted a republic, in Lincoln’s words, "of the people, by the people, and for the people." A country where any farmer, small-business owner, manual laborer, or doctor could speak up and make a difference. I believe that making a difference starts with understanding our amazing founding document, the U.S. Constitution. And as someone who has performed brain surgery thousands of times, I can assure you that the Constitution isn’t brain surgery. The founders wrote it for ordinary men and women, in clear, precise, simple language. They intentionally made it short enough to read in a single sitting and to carry in your pocket. I wrote this book to encourage every citizen to read and think about the Constitution, and to help defend it from those who misinterpret and undermine it. In our age of political correctness it’s especially important to defend the Bill of Rights, which guarantees our freedom to speak, bear arms, practice our religion, and much more. The Constitution isn’t history—it’s about your life in America today. And defending it is about what kind of country our children and grandchildren will inherit. I hope you’ll enjoy learning about the fascinating ways that the founders established the greatest democracy in history—and the ways that recent presidents, congresses, and courts have threatened that democracy. As the Preamble says, the purpose of the Constitution is to create a more perfect union. My goal is to empower you to help protect that union and secure the blessings of liberty. Sincerely, Ben Carson