Theodore and Woodrow; How Two American Presidents Destroyed Constitutional Freedom
Nashville, TN: Thomas Nelson, 2012. First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. xviii, 298, [4] pages. Author's Notes. Introduction, Sixteen Chapters. Postscript. Notes. About the Author. Index. Andrew Peter Napolitano (born June 6, 1950) is an American syndicated columnist. He was an analyst for Fox News. He has written nine books on legal and political subjects. Napolitano subscribes to a natural law jurisprudence. Napolitano's philosophy generally leans towards strong originalism while not accepting the limitations of the type of originalism espoused by Justice Antonin Scalia with respect to the Constitution's open-ended provisions like the Ninth Amendment. He finds such limitations too restricting on a judge's ability to apply the natural law to decide cases where the liberty of the individual is at stake. He argues that Lochner v. New York was overruled in error, as the Contracts Clause and the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendment due process clauses protect a sphere of personal economic liberty. Publisher's Summary: A harsh and revealing political exposé of two beloved presidents. Judge Andrew P. Napolitano reveals how Teddy Roosevelt, a bully, and Woodrow Wilson, a constitutional scholar, each pushed aside the Constitution’s restrictions on the federal government and used it as an instrument to redistribute wealth, regulate personal behavior, and enrich the government. These two men and the Progressives who supported them have brought us, among other things: The income tax; The Federal Reserve; Compulsory, state-prescribed education; The destruction of state sovereignty; The rise of Jim Crow and military conscription; Prohibition and war. The Progressive Era witnessed the most dramatic peaceful shift of power from persons and from the states to a new and permanent federal bureaucracy in all of American history. Theodore and Woodrow exposes two of our nation’s most beloved presidents and how they helped speed the Progressive cause on its merry way. America's founding fathers saw freedom as a part of our nature to be protected, not to be usurped by the federal government, and so enshrined separation of powers and guarantees of freedom in the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. But a little over a hundred years after America's founding, those God-given rights were laid siege by two presidents caring more about the advancement of progressive, redistributionist ideology than the principles on which America was founded. Theodore and Woodrow is Judge Andrew P. Napolitano's shocking historical account of how a Republican and a Democratic president oversaw the greatest shift in power in American history, from a land built on the belief that authority should be left to the individuals and the states to a bloated, far-reaching federal bureaucracy, continuing to grow and consume power each day. With lessons rooted in history, Judge Napolitano shows the intellectually arrogant, anti-personal freedom, even racist progressive philosophy driving these men to poison the American system of government. And Americans still pay for their legacy, in the federal income, in state-prescribed compulsory education, in the Federal Reserve, in perpetual wars, and in the constant encroachment of a government that coddles special interests and discourages true competition in the marketplace. With his attention to detail, deep constitutional knowledge, and unwavering adherence to truth telling, Judge Napolitano moves through the history of these men and their times in office to show how American values and the Constitution were sadly set aside, leaving personal freedom as a shadow of its former self, in the grip of an insidious, Nanny state, progressive ideology. Condition: Very good / Very good.
Keywords: Theodore Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, Bull Moose, Federal Regulations, Federal Reserve, Federalism, Racism, Eugenics, Conscription, Labor Law, Anti-Trust, Conservation, Personal Freedom, International Relations, Propaganda, Espionage, Income Tax
ISBN: 9781595553515
[Book #83144]
Price: $45.00