The Liberty Amendments: Restoring the American Republic

by Mark R. Levin

Overview

The long-awaited new book on how to fix our broken government by the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Liberty and Tyranny and Ameritopia.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781451606270
Publisher:	Threshold Editions
Publication date:	08/13/2013
Pages:	272
Sales rank:	1,110,565
Product dimensions:	5.80(w) x 8.50(h) x 1.20(d)

About the Author

Mark R. Levin is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Ameritopia and Liberty and Tyranny. He is the president of Landmark Legal Foundation and a nationally syndicated conservative talk radio host. He is the son of Jack E. Levin. Visit MarkLevinShow.com.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Restoring the American Republic 1

Chapter 2 An Amendment to Establish Term Limits for Members of Congress 19

Chapter 3 An Amendment to Restore the Senate 33

Chapter 4 An Amendment to Establish Term Limits for Supreme Court Justices and Super-Majority Legislative Override 49

Chapter 5 Two Amendments to Limit Federal Spending and Taxing 73

Chapter 6 An Amendment to Limit the Federal Bureaucracy 99

Chapter 7 An Amendment to Promote Free Enterprise 117

Chapter 8 An Amendment to Protect Private Property 137

Chapter 9 An Amendment to Grant the States Authority to Directly Amend the Constitution 147

Chapter 10 An Amendment to Grant the States Authority to Check Congress 169

Chapter 11 An Amendment to Protect the Vote 183

Epilogue: The Time for Action 203

Appendix: The Amendments 209

Acknowledgments 221

Notes 223

Editorial Reviews

"I applaud Mark Levin for his book and for being unafraid to propose these thoughtful constitutional amendments. Mark’s book sparks an important discussion about how to fix the problems that face our Republic."

Senator Ted Cruz

2013-11-03
Ronald Reagan stalwart and conservative radio host Levin (Ameritopia: The Unmaking of America, 2012, etc.) punts one for the Gipper in the showdown with the dreaded statists and their "century-long march to disfigure and mangle the constitutional order." Forget for a minute that Reagan expanded the federal government plenty even while talking about the evils of big government. Forget for a minute that a little more than century ago, it was the Republicans who pushed the 17th Amendment, which Levin attributes to "a Progressive populism promoting simultaneously radical egalitarianism and centralized authoritarianism." For those needing to brush up their constitutional law, the 17th Amendment is the one that lets you vote for your U.S. senator rather than having your legislature appoint one, which Levin proposes restoring. Indeed, much of this book, a set of prescriptions and proscriptions to restore "the republic," is really a reformulation of the old anti-federalist argument against the likes of John Jay and Alexander Hamilton, who, one presumes, would bristle about Levin's idea that taxing an estate is somehow evil. The author has a few more notions that the liberal elite may find variously quaint or alarming, including the thought that the states should somehow have the authority to "check Congress." The preference for states' rights over federal ones is nowhere more apparent than here, though if Levin were to look closely at the doings of the legislatures of, say, Texas or Arizona, he might be glad to see that the system of checks and balances is in place at least somewhere--not in Phoenix or Austin, but in Washington, D.C. Levin at least doesn't calumniate too pointedly against a single party, though the fact that his villain is Barack Obama and the hero is Saint Ronnie is a giveaway. For like-minded readers only.

Kirkus Reviews

"Mark Levin’s The Liberty Amendments is the revolutionary blueprint millions of Americans have been waiting for...carefully and powerfully written."

Jeffrey Lord

Mark Levin's book is a serious work that can serve as an action plan for curing what ails us.

Cal Thomas

"[Mark Levin] has done an incredible job of drafting these proposed amendments aimed at re-establishing the balance between the federal and state governments...let our national conversation begin, and let us thank Mark Levin for initiating it."

David Limbaugh