The Making of AmericaVerity Publishing - Political Science The United States of America has been blessed with the world’s greatest political success formula. In a little over a century, this formula allowed a small segment of the human family—less than 6 percent—to become the richest nation on earth. It allowed them to create more than half of the world’s total output in production and enjoy the highest standard of living in the history of the world. In this book, we learn how the Founding Fathers discovered this success formula. Much of this discovery is told in the words of the Founders themselves, so that the reader can feel the power of their minds sweeping away thousands of years of bad government and illogical laws to formulate a whole new society based on human freedom. By returning to the roots of the Founders’ thinking, and contemplating the logic that they used in establishing the Constitution, we can better understand the challenges and solutions that confront us in today’s political world. This eBook includes the original index, illustrations, footnotes, table of contents and page numbering from the printed format. |
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... Legislative Branch Chapter Ten—The Power Plant of the Constitution Principle #8 (from Article I.1.1): All legislative or lawmaking powers granted by this Constitution shall be vested exclusively in the Congress of the United States ...
... Legislative Process Legislative Restraints Principle #67 (from Article I.7.1): All bills for the raising of revenue shall originate in the House of Representatives. House of Representatives Accountable to the People Senators (Originally ...
... Legislative Invention The Founders Invented a New Legislative Process President's Conditional Veto Power Gives Balance to the System Veto Power to Discourage Demagogues from Passing Bad Laws Veto Designed to Check Legislative Injustice ...
... Legislative Tyranny Use of Electors to Choose President Preferable to the Legislature Appointing Him Special Electors Best Qualified Most Enlightened Citizens to Serve in Electoral College Dangerous to Leave Election of President to a ...
... Legislative Appointments Too Partisan Appointments by Senate As Objectionable As Appointments by House Massachusetts Set the Precedent for This Procedure Bad Appointments Will Lead to Public Censure of the President Reasons Why ...
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The Making of America: The Substance and Meaning of the Constitution Willard Cleon Skousen No preview available - 1985 |
The Making of America: The Substance and Meaning of the Constitution Willard Cleon Skousen No preview available - 1985 |