When at Times the Mob Is Swayed : A Citizen's Guide to Defending Our Republic.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Neuborne, Burt.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Civil rights.

Constitutional law.

Democracy.

Political culture.

Political participation.

Separation of powers.

States' rights (American politics).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (246 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Toronto : New Press, The, 2019.

Summary:

From the leading constitutional lawyer who has sued every president since LBJ, a masterful explication of the ';pillars of our democracy'On November 9, 2016, 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 fronted by Donald Trump's tweets: 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 areaswomen's right to choose, LGBTQ rights, separation of church and staterisk erosion, Neuborne suggests that the ';parchment barriers' of our Constitution, coupled with strong citizen activism, will allow us to fulfill Ben Franklin's charge to keep our republic.When at Times the Mob Is Swayed is an invitation from one of our most respected legal lights to identify, celebrate, and defend our bedrock constitutional principles.

Contents:

How good are the brakes on the democracy train?

Why the sudden concern about fixing the brakes?

Would you buy this house? : repairing the cracks in democracy's foundation

Do the external judicial brakes work anymore?

The Fortas fiasco : how not to maintain the brakes

What's law got to do with it? : please don't kill all the lawyers-yet

In praise of seventh-grade civics : separation of powers in the time of Trump

Applying separation of powers in the time of Trump : five test cases

Which shell is the power under? : federalism as a protection of the weak

Night sweats : what if it all comes apart?

Notes:

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ISBN:

9781620973592

1620973596

OCLC:

1105038342