The Liberty Amendments

Mark R. Levin

• Publisher: Threshold Editions
• Year: 2013
• Print ISBN:
  9781451606324
• eBook ISBN:
  9781451606393
• Topic: Politics & International Relations
• Subtopic: Conservatism & Liberalism
• Index: Politics & International Relations

Mark R. Levin has made the case, in numerous bestselling books that the principles undergirding our society and governmental system are unraveling. In The Liberty Amendments, he turns to the founding fathers and the constitution itself for guidance in restoring the American republic.

The delegates to the 1787 Constitutional Convention and the delegates to each state’s ratification convention foresaw a time when the Federal government might breach the Constitution’s limits and begin oppressing the people. Agencies such as the IRS and EPA and programs such as Obamacare demonstrate that the Framers’ fear was prescient. Therefore, the Framers provided two methods for amending the Constitution. The second was intended for our current circumstances—empowering the states to bypass Congress and call a convention for the purpose of amending the Constitution. Levin argues that we, the people, can avoid a perilous outcome by seeking recourse, using the method called for in the Constitution itself.

The Framers adopted ten constitutional amendments, called the Bill of Rights, that would preserve individual rights and state authority. Levin lays forth eleven specific prescriptions for restoring our founding principles, ones that are consistent with the Framers’ design. His proposals—such as term limits for members of Congress and Supreme Court justices and limits on federal taxing and spending—are pure common sense, ideas shared by many. They draw on the wisdom of the Founding Fathers—including James Madison, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, and numerous lesser-known but crucially important men—in their content and in the method for applying them to the current state of the nation.

Now is the time for the American people to take the first step toward reclaiming what belongs to them. The task is daunting, but it is imperative if we are to be truly free.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Dedication
• Chapter One: Restoring the American Republic
• Chapter Two: An Amendment to Establish Term Limits for Members of Congress
• Chapter Three: An Amendment to Restore the Senate
• Chapter Four: An Amendment to Establish Term Limits for Supreme Court Justices and Super-Majority Legislative Override
• Chapter Five: Two Amendments to Limit Federal Spending and Taxing
• Chapter Six: An Amendment to Limit the Federal Bureaucracy
• Chapter Seven: An Amendment to Promote Free Enterprise
• Chapter Eight: An Amendment to Protect Private Property
• Chapter Nine: An Amendment to Grant the States Authority to Directly Amend the Constitution
• Chapter Ten: An Amendment to Grant the States Authority to Check Congress
• Chapter Eleven: An Amendment to Protect the Vote
• Epilogue: The Time for Action
• Appendix: The Amendments
• Acknowledgments
• About Mark R. Levin
• Notes
• Copyright