How do the myths of “coequal” branches and of “checks” and “balances” between them subvert our fundamental understanding of the framers’ work at Philadelphia in 1787?
Which of the three branches of the government of the United States is “predominant” and which is “beyond comparison, the weakest?”
What error in the Gettysburg Address has contributed to the widespread misunderstanding of the nature of the United States and, consequently, of their Constitution?
What early – and infamous – violation of the Tenth Amendment has returned to prominence today?
Why were the framers reluctant to include a “bill of rights” in the original Constitution and how does the framers’ pronounced aversion to the addition of one inform us of the most fundamental precept of a written constitution?
In this book former Congressman John Hostettler reveals the Constitution that Madison, Hamilton, Washington, and Franklin originally gave us and the limited expansion which later Congresses made to the “general government.” Without the application of the principles provided within that document and elucidated on the pages herein, it will be impossible to realize the framers’ vision of the blessings of liberty which may only be secured by the plan they Ordained and Established.