When at Times the Mob Is Swayed
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When at Times the Mob Is Swayed

A Citizen’s Guide to Defending Our Republic

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eBook - ePub

When at Times the Mob Is Swayed

A Citizen’s Guide to Defending Our Republic

About this book

From a leading constitutional lawyer who has sued every president since LBJ, a masterful explication of the true “pillars of our democracy”

On November 9, 2016—and again on January 6, 2021—many Americans feared that our democracy was on the verge of collapse. But is it? In an erudite and brilliant evaluation of the current state of our government, noted constitutional scholar Burt Neuborne administers a stress test to democracy and concludes that our unprecedented sets of constitutional protections, all endorsed by both major parties, stand between us and an authoritarian federal regime: namely the division of powers between the three branches, the rights reserved to the states, and the Bill of Rights.

Neuborne parses the genius of our constitutional system and the ways its built-in resilience will ultimately survive current attempts to dismantle it. While many important issue areas—women’s right to choose, LGBTQ rights, separation of church and state—risk erosion, Neuborne argues that the Constitution’s inherent defense mechanisms can buy us time. But only an active citizenry will enable us to defend our cherished rights and protections, fulfilling Ben Franklin’s charge to keep our republic.

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Information

Publisher
The New Press
Year
2019
Print ISBN
9781620973585
eBook ISBN
9781620973592
Edition
0
Topic
Law
Index
Law

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Dedication
  4. Contents
  5. 1 How Good Are the Brakes on the Democracy Train?
  6. 2 Why the Sudden Concern About Fixing the Brakes?
  7. 3 Would You Buy This House? Repairing the Cracks in Democracy’s Foundation
  8. 4 Do the External Judicial Brakes Work Anymore?
  9. 5 The Fortas Fiasco:How Not to Maintain the Brakes
  10. 6 What’s Law Got to Do with It? Please Don’t Kill All the Lawyers—Yet
  11. 7 In Praise of Seventh-Grade Civics: Separation of Powers in the Time of Trump
  12. 8 Applying Separation of Powers in the Time of Trump: Five Test Cases
  13. 9 Which Shell Is the Power Under? Federalism as a Protection of the Weak
  14. Epilogue: Night Sweats—What If It All Comes Apart?
  15. A Note on Notes
  16. Index
  17. About the Author
  18. Publishing in the Public Interest
  19. Copyright