[PDF] Refounding America eBook

Author : Terry Easton
Publisher : Liberty Publishing Company
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 19,10 MB
Release : 2010-07
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780974969442

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America is fighting a Civil War today. Between the Citizen and the State. On one side are the Patriots, people who support the Constitution and our system of government: limited in its power over your life. A system of checks and balances and small government where the important decisions are made by the States, not Washington. A system where 'We the People' has real meaning, where Rights apply to individuals, and where the Government has only duties. Patriots trust the people. On the other side are the Progressives, people who believe that ethics and morality and law come not from God but from the Government. Their vision is for a system where the Government becomes the Nanny State, and in the process Big Brother, taking care of them from Cradle to Grave. All you have to give up for this Utopia is your personal freedom and all your Rights - which turn out to be not so inalienable after all. Progressives trust the State. Refounding America is about fighting this Patriotic War against the Progressives who would have their State take over every aspect of our lives. Their prescription for "hope" and "change" is Socialism, the first step on the slippery slope to Marxism. Over 60 years ago, George Orwell warned us about this coming totalitarian dystopia in his works 1984 and Animal Farm. In the latter, all the animals were equal - except the elitist Pigs, who were more equal. Sound familiar? Refounding America is the field manual for the other animals in the barnyard who want their own personal freedoms back and are sick and tired of the Pigs telling them what to do. Refounding America is the handbook loaded with practical, tactical strategies to "Take Back America Now," and win the battle against the Progressives.

Author : Noah Feldman
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 14,29 MB
Release : 2021-11-02
Category : History
ISBN : 0374720878

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A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice An innovative account of Abraham Lincoln, constitutional thinker and doer Abraham Lincoln is justly revered for his brilliance, compassion, humor, and rededication of the United States to achieving liberty and justice for all. He led the nation into a bloody civil war to uphold the system of government established by the US Constitution—a system he regarded as the “last best hope of mankind.” But how did Lincoln understand the Constitution? In this groundbreaking study, Noah Feldman argues that Lincoln deliberately and recurrently violated the United States’ founding arrangements. When he came to power, it was widely believed that the federal government could not use armed force to prevent a state from seceding. It was also assumed that basic civil liberties could be suspended in a rebellion by Congress but not by the president, and that the federal government had no authority over slavery in states where it existed. As president, Lincoln broke decisively with all these precedents, and effectively rewrote the Constitution’s place in the American system. Before the Civil War, the Constitution was best understood as a compromise pact—a rough and ready deal between states that allowed the Union to form and function. After Lincoln, the Constitution came to be seen as a sacred text—a transcendent statement of the nation’s highest ideals. The Broken Constitution is the first book to tell the story of how Lincoln broke the Constitution in order to remake it. To do so, it offers a riveting narrative of his constitutional choices and how he made them—and places Lincoln in the rich context of thinking of the time, from African American abolitionists to Lincoln’s Republican rivals and Secessionist ideologues. Includes 8 Pages of Black-and-White Illustrations

Author : St. Germain
Publisher : Bookbaby
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 30,70 MB
Release : 2019-04-22
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781543957440

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This is the powerful story of a divine experiment to create a world based on love called Earth, designed to be a reflection of creation itself. A key focus of this experiment was to create a nation with a government of the people, by the people and for the people: The United States of America. The story of that experiment is told through the lives of three proxies serving creation. Two of the proxies are human; the third became an Ascended Master, St Germain, humanity's guide during this new 2000-year spiritual age of Aquarius. All three aspire to the same mission: that the United States and the entire world become full expressions of love, peace, equality, harmony and balance--in essence, reflections of creation itself. Now America's divine mission appears to be threatened by dark forces seeking to destroy the democratic foundations upon which this nation was built. Discover how the same energetic forces that helped create this nation are beginning to integrate that original founding energy into the people to "Refound" America's original divine mission to bring We consciousness to every human being on planet Earth. "America is the hope of humanity. It is the way-shower for the rest of the world. The destiny of America reflects the oneness destiny of the world." St Germain.

Author : Keith Simpson
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 163 pages
File Size : 45,61 MB
Release : 2017-06-27
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1532011628

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The United States of America is similar to a computer: At one time, its hardware was new, its software worked well, and users respected the system. But the hardware has aged, malware has infected its circuits, and users have run amok. The entire country is locking up and crashing. Theres only one solution: We must reboot the systemand we must do it now. Keith Simpson, a Navy veteran and former airline captain and labor union leader, shares a bold treatise that will bring the nation back to its previous glory in New Mayflower. Its not another rant focusing on whats wrong with the United States. It includes keen insights that are proactive, daring, disarming, and dangerous all at the same timeas well as the proposed text for several amendments that would restore the Constitution. At one time, our country was defined by freedom, prosperity, moral decency, and spiritual faith. Join the author as he looks to the Pilgrims, Founding Fathers, and some of our greatest statesmen and stateswomen to discover how we can get it back.

Author : Stephen M. Griffin
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 375 pages
File Size : 21,99 MB
Release : 2013-06-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0674074459

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Extension of presidential leadership in foreign affairs to war powers has destabilized our constitutional order and deranged our foreign policy. Stephen M. Griffin shows unexpected connections between the imperial presidency and constitutional crises, and argues for accountability by restoring Congress to a meaningful role in decisions for war.

Author : Stephen Colbert
Publisher : Grand Central Publishing
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 50,9 MB
Release : 2012-10-02
Category : Humor
ISBN : 0446583987

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Book store nation, in the history of mankind there has never been a greater country than America. You could say we're the #1 nation at being the best at greatness. But as perfect as America is in every single way, America is broken! And we can't exchange it because we're 236 years past the 30-day return window. Look around--we don't make anything anymore, we've mortgaged our future to China, and the Apologist-in-Chief goes on world tours just to bow before foreign leaders. Worse, the L.A. Four Seasons Hotel doesn't even have a dedicated phone button for the Spa. You have to dial an extension! Where did we lose our way?! It's high time we restored America to the greatness it never lost! Luckily, America Again will singlebookedly pull this country back from the brink. It features everything from chapters, to page numbers, to fonts. Covering subject's ranging from healthcare ("I shudder to think where we'd be without the wide variety of prescription drugs to treat our maladies, such as think-shuddering") to the economy ("Life is giving us lemons, and we're shipping them to the Chinese to make our lemon-flavored leadonade") to food ("Feel free to deep fry this book-it's a rich source of fiber"), Stephen gives America the dose of truth it needs to get back on track.

Author : James Burkhart Gilbert
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 31,18 MB
Release : 1992
Category : History
ISBN : 9780231082556

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As the primary source for important political and literary ideas from its founding in 1934 until the post-World War II era, the Partisan Review is a useful guide to the changing nature of 20th-century American socialism. James Gilbert uses the Partisan Review, Masses and Seven Arts to show how avant-garde literature became identified with radical politics and art, and how literary radicalism matured beyond the confines of Marxist philosophy and literary criticism.

Author : Adam Nicholas Nemmers
Publisher :
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 15,11 MB
Release : 2017
Category : American literature
ISBN :

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Re-founding America: Nation, Ideology, and the Modern(ist) Epic Novel argues that during the 1920s and '30s a cadre of minority novelists employed the classic epic form in an effort to recast the United States according to modern, diverse, and pluralistic grounds. Rather than adhere to the reification of culture as in ancient, poetic epic, Modernist writers such as Gertrude Stein and John Dos Passos utilized recursion, bricolage, and polyphony to represent the multifarious immediacy of the modern world; other authors, including George Santayana and Richard Wright, created insipid or outrageous anti-heroes for their epics, contesting the hegemony of Anglo dominance in the United States. Chapter 1, "Beyond the Genteel," argues that Santayana's The Last Puritan subverts and ultimately extinguishes the sterile Genteel Tradition of New England (embodied by protagonist Oliver Alden), replacing it with a vibrant strain of multiculturalism (exhibited by his cousin, Mario van de Weyer). Chapter 2, "The Unmaking of American Progress" attends to Stein's The Making of Americans, which destabilizes the longstanding American ideology of salutary progress, instead asserting that failure is the default condition of the nation, and that even success comes at a great cost. Chapter 3, "A Modernist Symphony," takes up the plight of the futile individual in Dos Passos' U. S. A., asserting that life in the modern United States requires a plural collectivism embodied by the itinerant characters of that epic novel. Finally, Chapter 4, "A Rent in the Curtain," explores the subversion of American apartheid in Wright's Native Son, tracing the epic journey of anti-hero Bigger Thomas, who crosses the Chicago color line to achieve self-actualization and claim meaning for his life. In all, I claim these epic novels sought to undermine and subvert the foundational ideology of the United States, contesting notions of individualism, progress, and racial hegemony while revitalizing the epic form for use in the modern age. The marriage of this classical form to Modernist principles produced transcendent literature and offered a strenuous challenge to the interwar status quo, yet ultimately proved a failure: the U.S. was too large and diverse, and longstanding American ideology was simply too fixed for the nation's axis be entirely dislodged.

Author : Adam Nemmers
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 27,23 MB
Release : 2021-10-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1949979679

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American Modern(ist) Epic argues that during the 1920s and ‘30s a cadre of minority novelists revitalized the classic epic form in an effort to recast the United States according to modern, diverse, and pluralistic grounds. Rather than adhere to the reification of static culture (as did ancient verse epic), in their prose epics Gertrude Stein and John Dos Passos utilized recursion, bricolage, and polyphony to represent the multifarious immediacy and movement of the modern world. Meanwhile, H. T. Tsiang and Richard Wright created absurd and insipid anti-heroes for their epics, contesting the hegemony of Anglo and capitalist dominance in the United States. In all, I posit, these modern(ist) epic novels undermined and revised the foundational ideology of the United States, contesting notions of individualism, progress, and racial hegemony while modernizing the epic form in an effort to refound the nation. The marriage of this classical form to modernist principles produced transcendent literature and offered a strenuous challenge to the interwar status quo, yet ultimately proved a failure: longstanding American ideology was simply too fixed and widespread to be entirely dislodged.

Author : Mark Arax
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 577 pages
File Size : 24,30 MB
Release : 2019-05-21
Category : Nature
ISBN : 1101875216

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A vivid, searching journey into California's capture of water and soil—the epic story of a people's defiance of nature and the wonders, and ruin, it has wrought Mark Arax is from a family of Central Valley farmers, a writer with deep ties to the land who has watched the battles over water intensify even as California lurches from drought to flood and back again. In The Dreamt Land, he travels the state to explore the one-of-a-kind distribution system, built in the 1940s, '50s and '60s, that is straining to keep up with California's relentless growth. The Dreamt Land weaves reportage, history and memoir to confront the "Golden State" myth in riveting fashion. No other chronicler of the West has so deeply delved into the empires of agriculture that drink so much of the water. The nation's biggest farmers—the nut king, grape king and citrus queen—tell their story here for the first time. Arax, the native son, is persistent and tough as he treks from desert to delta, mountain to valley. What he finds is hard earned, awe-inspiring, tragic and revelatory. In the end, his compassion for the land becomes an elegy to the dream that created California and now threatens to undo it.