After Patrick Henry : a second American revolution / Neal Q. Herrick.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Herrick, Neal Q.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Executive power--United States.

Executive power.

United States.

Political corruption--United States.

Political corruption.

Business and politics--United States.

Business and politics.

United States--Politics and government--2001-2009.

Politics and government.

Physical Description:

xxx, 400 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Montreal ; New York : Black Rose Books, [2009]

Summary:

Neal Herrick demonstrates, in a lucid manner, that government corruption is the predominant problem facing society today. Although bribery and influence peddling are the most visible aspect of this corruption, they are not, in Herrick's analysis, the most serious. For Herrick, the more serious aspect of government corruption is the laws that bribery and influence peddling produce-laws that favour the corporations-resulting in, what he calls, a kind of delusional corruption that leads, for example, to unjust and unnecessary wars.

Tracing both forms of corruption back through American history, Herrick gives a brief account of governmental descent into lawlessness, identifies the constitutional flaw that led to this lawlessness, and discusses some of the issues that must be considered in devising remedies.

Contents:

Part I Our Country in Trouble

Chapter 1 Presidential Wars 7

Chapter 2 An Eroded Political Culture 49

Chapter 3 Civil Society Complaisance 71

Part II The Broken "Mainspring" of Our Government

Chapter 4 Should Impeachment Proceedings Consider the Good of the Country? 95

Chapter 5 Should Impeachment Proceedings Consider Public Opinion and Party Discipline? 126

Chapter 6 Should Impeachment Defendants Be Granted Due Process? 153

Chapter 7 Did the 106th Senate Usurp House Impeachment Powers? 179

Chapter 8 Did the 106th Senate Usurp the Chief Justice's Authority to Preside? 202

Part III Our Journey from Republic to Elective Monarchy and Some Thoughts About a Return Trip

Chapter 9 Stepping-Stones on the Path We Have Traveled 231

Chapter 10 Potholes on the Road Back 269

Part IV Stepping Back from the Brink of Tyranny

Chapter 11 Prudent "Measures" We Should Take 314

Chapter 12 A First Step on the Road Back 351.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [390]-393) and index.

ISBN:

9781551643205

1551643200

9781551643212

1551643219

OCLC:

216936782