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The United States Constitution and Citizens' Rights: The Interpretation and Mis-Interpretation of the American Contract for Governance

The United States Constitution and Citizens' Rights: The Interpretation and Mis-Interpretation of the American Contract for Governance

Adickes, Roland

Paperback

General LawSocial MovementsUnited States Politics

ISBN10: 0786409290
ISBN13: 9780786409297
Publisher: McFarland & Company
Published: Mar 22 2001
Pages: 174
Weight: 0.60
Height: 0.53 Width: 6.04 Depth: 8.96
Language: English

In a time when American politics has become a spectator sport often viewed with a cynical eye by the people, it is needful to be reminded that our freedom entails a civic responsibility to preserve the legal document that gives us that freedom, the United States Constitution.

The Constitution is a contract to which all citizens are parties and upon which they have a right to rely. The people have as well the right to protect themselves from interpretations that go unreasonably beyond the original intent of the Framers. It is clear that in the past the Constitution has been abused to justify decisions made by the legislative and judicial branches of government (as in the Dred Scott case) that have since been overturned. Decisions that extend the powers of the federal government beyond the expressly stated limits declared in the Constitution continue to occur today and remain subjects of intensely debated contention.

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