THOMAS E. WOODS Jr. is the New York Times bestselling author of 33
Questions About American History You're Not Supposed to Ask, The
Politically Incorrect Guide™ to American History, and How the
Catholic Church Built Western Civilization.
KEVIN R. C. GUTZMAN is the New York Times bestselling author of The
Politically Incorrect Guide™ to the Constitution and Virginia's
American Revolution.
“If you want to know why the federal government regulates the air
you breathe, the water you drink, and the words you speak, read Who
Killed the Constitution? . . . When the history of these unfree
times is written, Tom Woods’s and Kevin Gutzman’s fearless work
will be recognized as the standard against which all others are
measured.”
–Judge Andrew Napolitano, Fox News senior judicial analyst and
bestselling author of The Constitution in Exile
“It’s about time someone shouted out that the emperor has no
clothes.”
–Kirkpatrick Sale, director of the Middlebury Institute and author
of Human Scale
"Woods and Gutzman (two bestselling authors in thePolitically
Incorrect Guide series) appeal to both left and right in this
constitutionalist jeremiad. Liberals will agree about the
unconstitutionality of the draft, warrantless wiretapping and
presidential signing statements. Conservatives will agree about the
unconstitutionality of school busing, bans on school prayer and
Roosevelt's suspension of the gold standard. The common thread is
the authors' brief for a federal government strictly limited to the
powers explicitly granted by the Constitution. The authors'
exegeses of the Constitution and court decisions, heavy on original
intent arguments, are lucid and telling, but not always
consistently supportive of liberty: their reading of the First
Amendment implies that state governments may restrict speech,
religion and the press. Their attack on expansive federal
power-even federal spending on cancer research-is perhaps too
successful; it inadvertently supports scholars like Daniel Lazare
who argue that the Constitution is too antiquated, constraining and
hard to change to keep up with a modern consensus on civil rights
and good governance."
—Publishers Weekly
"If you want to know why the federal government regulates the air
you breathe, the water you drink, and the words you speak, read
Who Killed the Constitution? . . . When the history of these
unfree times is written, Tom Woods's and Kevin Gutzman's fearless
work will be recognized as the standard against which all others
are measured."
-Judge Andrew Napolitano, Fox News senior judicial analyst and
bestselling author of The Constitution in Exile
"It's about time someone shouted out that the emperor has no
clothes."
-Kirkpatrick Sale, director of the Middlebury Institute and author
of Human Scale
"Woods and Gutzman (two bestselling authors in thePolitically
Incorrect Guide series) appeal to both left and right in this
constitutionalist jeremiad. Liberals will agree about the
unconstitutionality of the draft, warrantless wiretapping and
presidential signing statements. Conservatives will agree about the
unconstitutionality of school busing, bans on school prayer and
Roosevelt's suspension of the gold standard. The common thread is
the authors' brief for a federal government strictly limited to the
powers explicitly granted by the Constitution. The authors'
exegeses of the Constitution and court decisions, heavy on original
intent arguments, are lucid and telling, but not always
consistently supportive of liberty: their reading of the First
Amendment implies that state governments may restrict speech,
religion and the press. Their attack on expansive federal
power-even federal spending on cancer research-is perhaps too
successful; it inadvertently supports scholars like Daniel Lazare
who argue that the Constitution is too antiquated, constraining and
hard to change to keep up with a modern consensus on civil rights
and good governance."
-Publishers Weekly
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