The Politically Incorrect Guide(tm) to the Constitution (Politically Incorrect Guides)
by Kevin R. C. Gutzman
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Author: Kevin R. C. GutzmanEdition: Paperback
Published: 2007-06-11
ISBN: 1596985054
Number of pages: 272
Publisher: Regnery Publishing, Inc.
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Book Review: The truth, but NOT the whole truth about the Constitution vs. 'constitutional law'
Summary: 3 Stars
First of all, I must qualify my review by saying that I encourage everyone interested in learning exactly how the Constitution has been effectively nullified over the course of the past 200+ years to purchase this book. It is an invaluable resource to any paleoconservative, libertarian, constitutionalist, minarchist, or even open-minded anti-state liberal. That said, here is my review:
Like many "paleolibertarian" books, the P.I.G. to the Constitution is exhilarating, but also frustrating. There really is no debate -- the author makes the clear case that the original meaning and intent of the Constitution is clearly evident in the writings of the founders and, more importantly, the ratifiers of the Constitution. He shows the patently outrageous decisions by the Court -- going back further than the New Deal, further than the Progressive Era or even the War to Prevent Southern Independence -- that have usurped the role of the Constitution and effectively turned the formerly sovereign states of America into an electoral/judicial dictatorship. This is fairly "politically incorrect" even to "conservatives" -- who are among the most government-worshiping, nationalist, "democracy"-loving statists in America today. In fact, the author really pushes the envelope by casting the sacred cows of Lincoln and (gasp!) Washington in a bad light (correctly, I might add).
So why do I give this book only three stars? Because the author is either intellectually dishonest or, as I suspect, a shill for his pro-fascist publisher. While he correctly strikes down "politically correct" decisions like Brown v. Board of Education, the non-ratification and misapplication of the 14th amendment, and the inventions of "penumbras" which would only apply to the federal government (not the states!) if they existed in the first place, he is completely silent on the wholly invented "presidential war powers," unconstitutional aggregation of power into the executive branch, and more recent abominations like the Patriot Act. If a Republican did it post-Civil War, it didn't happen, according to the author, or if it did, it was constitutional. This selective application of the law is no different from what he (correctly) accuses the Supreme Court of doing.
Furthermore, the title of this book is misleading. It deals little with the Constitution itself, and instead, is about "constitutional law" -- which the author himself admits and laments has little or nothing to do with the Constitution. This actually made the book more worthwhile for me, but the nonstop judge and lawyer bashing would have been well complemented with a little more executive-branch bashing sprinkled on top, including the truth about Republican administrations which, at least since the New Deal, have done far more to destroy liberty than their (thankfully ineffective) Democratic counterparts.
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In The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Constitution, readers will follow the Supreme Court as it uses the Constitution as a fig leaf to cover its blatant seizing of the people's right to govern themselves through elections. Gutzman unveils the radical inconsistency between constitutional law and the rule of law, and shows why and how the Supreme Court should be reined in to the proper role assigned to it by the Founders.United States Books
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