Covenant of liberty : the ideological origins of the Tea Party movement / by Michael Patrick Leahy.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Leahy, Michael Patrick, 1955-

Contributor:

Herman V. Ames Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Tea Party movement.

United States--Politics and government.

United States.

Politics and government.

Physical Description:

viii, 295 pages ; 24 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Broadside Books, [2012]

Summary:

One of the founders of the Tea Party traces the movement's principles back before the founding of the United States to the roots of English liberty, describing the three core values of the Tea Party and explaining how and why this movement arose.

Contents:

Four broken promises : why the Tea Party arose

The English roots of American liberty

American constitutionalism and the formation of the secular covenant

Alexander Hamilton and the broken promise of plain meaning

The Republican Party and the broken promise of free markets

Woodrow Wilson and the divine right of the state

Republicans fail to offer an alternative

Hoover, FDR, and the broken promise of the fiscal constitution

FDR's assault on free markets and the constitution

LBJ, Richard Nixon, and the final destruction of the three promises

The broken promise of deliberative accountability and the rise of the Tea Party movement

Restoring the secular covenant : a Tea Party America based on the Constitution.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Herman V. Ames Fund.

ISBN:

0062066331

9780062066336

9780062066343

006206634X

OCLC:

733223604

Publisher Number:

99947902898