Introduction: The United States - Democracy or Republic?
1. The Framers' Vision
2. Preamble: "Intoxicating Draughts of Liberty Run Mad"
3. Congress: Justice to Property
4. Congress: Designed for Inefficiency
5. Congress: Power of the Purse
6. Executive: The Rule of One
7. Executive: Unrestrained Global Guardian of Property
8. Judiciary: The Servant Above His Master
9. Amendments and Ratification: An Act of Force and Not of
Right
10. Beyond Constitution
Robert Ovetz is a Senior Lecturer in Political Science at San José State University, US. He is the author of When Workers Shot Back: Class Conflict from 1877 to 1921 and the editor of Workers' Inquiry and Global Class Struggle.
'A crucial and timely corrective about what words like democracy
and freedom actually meant to the Founders. A gift to serious
analysts of US politics - but, more importantly, to those who would
build a system that serves people rather than property'
*Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò, Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Georgetown
University and author of 'Elite Capture'*
'This ambitious, stimulating, thoughtful, exceedingly informative
book sets a new standard in scholarship on the vaunted US
Constitution'
*Gerald Horne, author of 'The Dawning of the Apocalypse'*
'At a moment when the country is facing a constitutional crisis, it
is well to understand what the Constitution is. This close analysis
unravels in detail the achievement of the Framers 'to create a
perpetual power of the elite minority to check the will of the
majority', to ensure that the minority of the opulent would be
protected from the threat of popular democracy'
*Noam Chomsky*
'Powerfully addresses how the constitution and US politics
reinforce capitalism and its dysfunction, offering crucial insights
for the big changes coming'
*Richard D. Wolff, Professor Emeritus of Economics, University of
Massachusetts, Amherst*
'The Constitution is a problem hiding in plain sight. Everyone
thinks they know what it means, but no one is willing to look too
closely for fear that it might mean something different or that it
might mean nothing it all. Robert Ovetz is one of the few who are
willing to grapple with the problem head on. He deserves credit for
his boldness and intellectual integrity'
*Dan Lazare, author of ‘The Frozen Republic: How the Constitution
Is Paralyzing Democracy’*
'An important corrective to a culture that engages in excessive
veneration of the document and the political system it created'
*Sanford Levinson, author of 'Our Undemocratic Constitution'*
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