The Tea Party: Three Principles - Hardcover

Elizabeth Price Foley

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1107011353 ISBN 13: 9781107011359

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2012

Synopsis

In The Tea Party: Three Principles, constitutional law professor Elizabeth Price Foley takes on the mainstream media's characterization of the American Tea Party movement, asserting that it has been distorted in a way that prevents meaningful political dialogue and may even be dangerous for America's future. Foley sees the Tea Party as a movement of principles over politics. She identifies three “core principles” of American constitutional law that bind the decentralized, wide-ranging movement: limited government, unapologetic U.S. sovereignty, and constitutional originalism. These three principles, Foley explains, both define the Tea Party movement and predict its effect on the American political landscape. Foley explains the three principles' significance to the American founding and constitutional structure. She then connects the principles to current issues as health care reform, illegal immigration, the war on terror, and internationalism.

About this title

About the Author

'Elizabeth Price Foley is a professor of constitutional law at Florida International University College of Law, where she was a member of the founding faculty. A self-professed 'recovering liberal,' she spent several years on Capitol Hill, as a senior legislative aide to two Democratic U.S. Congressmen. Foley is Executive Director, Florida Chapter, of the Institute for Justice, a public interest law firm that litigates constitutional liberty claims. She is the author of Liberty for All: Reclaiming Individual Privacy in a New Era of Public Morality (2006),The Law of Life and Death (2011), and The Tea Party: Three Principles (February 2012).'

From the Back Cover

"Elizabeth Price Foley has produced an interesting and important work on the constitutional basis for the agenda of the Tea Party movement.... I do believe anyone interested in understanding how the growth of the welfare-regulatory state violates the constitution and threatens liberty can benefit from reading this book."
- Ron Paul, United States Congressman (R-TX)

"Elizabeth Price Foley's The Tea Party is a clear and straightforward explication of what the Tea Party Movement is all about, and is required reading for anyone who wants to understand the current political climate. With this slim, provocative volume, Foley once again demonstrates why she is one of constitutional law's rising stars."
- Glenn Harlan Reynolds, Beauchamp Brogan Distinguished Professor of Law, University of Tennessee College of Law

"By elevating principle above party, the Tea Party has already changed the face of American politics. In this marvelous book, Elizabeth Price Foley clearly identifies and defends the three basic principles that unite the Tea Party movement, all stemming from its commitment to our written Constitution. Politicos beware; the party has just begun."
- Randy E. Barnett, Professor of Constitutional Law, Georgetown Law Center, and author of Restoring the Lost Constitution: The Presumption of Liberty (2005)

Edition details

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1107011353
• ISBN 13: 9781107011359
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 254