Our Misplaced Structure: The Willful Subversion of America’s Founding Doc

The still-unfolding story of America’s Structure is a historical past of heroes and villains – the flawed visionaries who impressed and crafted liberty’s safeguards, and the shortsighted opportunists who defied them. These tales are identified by few right this moment.

In Our Misplaced Structure, Senator Mike Lee tells the dramatic, little-known tales behind six of the Structure’s most indispensable provisions. He exhibits their rise. He exhibits their fall. And he makes vividly clear how practically each abuse of federal energy right this moment is rooted in neglect of this Misplaced Structure. For instance:

• The Origination Clause says that every one payments to boost taxes should originate within the Home of Representatives, however contempt for the clause ensured the passage of Obamacare.
• The Fourth Modification protects us in opposition to unreasonable searches and seizures, however the NSA now collects our non-public information with no warrant.
• The Legislative Powers Clause signifies that solely Congress can cross legal guidelines, however unelected companies now produce 99 out of each 100 of authorized guidelines imposed on the American individuals.

Lee’s solid of characters features a former Ku Klux Klansman, who hijacked the Institution Clause to strangle Catholic faculties; the Chief Justice of the Supreme Courtroom, who referred to as the Second Modification a fraud; and the revered president who started his first of 4 phrases by threating to shatter the stability of energy between Congress and the president, and who started his second time period by vowing to do the identical to the Supreme Courtroom.

Thankfully, the Structure has at all times had its defenders. Senator Lee tells the story of how Andrew Jackson, famous for his braveness in duels and politics, stood agency in opposition to the unconstitutional enlargement of federal powers. He brings to life Ben Franklin’s genius for compromise at a deeply divided constitutional conference.