The Bill of Rights (Paperback)

Langue : anglais

Edité par Green Dragon Press, 2026

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Paperback. The Bill of Rights was not written to expand freedom.It was written to stop power.This book treats the first ten amendments not as abstract ideals or modern talking points, but as historical responses to abuses already suffered, justified, and normalized by authority.Each amendment is examined as a boundary drawn after experience removed illusion. Compelled belief. Disarmament. Military intrusion. Arbitrary search. Forced confession. Secret justice. Administrative civil law. Punishment as spectacle. Enumerated control. Consolidated power. None were hypothetical dangers. All had precedent.Rather than arguing policy or contemporary outcomes, this work restores memory. It explains why restraint was considered necessary long before erosion and consolidation became visible again. The Bill of Rights is revealed not as a promise of virtue, but as a system designed for inevitability - the inevitability that power expands, justifies itself, and rarely restrains itself voluntarily.Each chapter focuses on what an amendment was written to prevent, not what it is now asked to accomplish. The language is restrictive, not aspirational. Government is told not what it should do, but what it must never do. Liberty is preserved not through optimism, but through denial.Written as a companion to a larger historical examination of power and liberty, this book stands alone as a clear, accessible account of why constitutional restraint matters - and why it fails most often when its origins are forgotten.The Bill of Rights does not disappear when it is repealed.It disappears when it is remembered only in theory.This book exists to prevent that forgetting. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.…

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Titre
The Bill of Rights (Paperback)
Auteur
Stanley Shepp
Éditeur
Green Dragon Press
Année de publication
2026
État de l'article
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Paperback
Langue
anglais
ISBN à 13 chiffres
9798994457009

CitiRetail

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