The Know Your Bill of Rights Book: Don't Lose Your Constitutional Rights--Learn Them! - Softcover

Patrick, Sean

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1938895223 ISBN 13: 9781938895227

Publisher: Oculus Publishers, 2013

Synopsis

National Bestseller

Don’t lose your Constitutional rights. Learn them.

Do you really want the crooked baby-kissers and fake news to tell you what your rights are?

Wouldn’t you rather discover them for yourself?

The Founders fought tirelessly to guarantee these God-given rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

But let’s face it—the Bill of Rights is hard to understand.

Its text is flowery and puzzling.

It’s full of legal and political jargon.

And without the right historical background, it’s impossible to grasp the full meaning, importance, and scope of each of the amendments (and especially the second amendment).

This book is the shortcut.

With it, you’ll quickly reach a deep understanding of the Bill of Rights thanks to the precise definitions of key words, crucial historical contexts, and enlightening insights from the Founders and their peers.

So, if you’re . . .

• Struggling to understand the United States Bill of Rights . . .


• Wondering how it should apply to modern society . . .


• And maybe even doubting whether it should still be held as inviolable today, 230 years after its writing . . .

. . . and if you want to discover what the two-faced corruptocrats and their media lackeys absolutely hate the most about our country and Constitution . . .

. . . you want to read this book today

Scroll up, click the “buy” button now, and learn things most Americans will never know about life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

About this title

About the Author

Sean Patrick is a concerned citizen and passionate patriot who believes that Thomas Jefferson was right when he said we must "educate and inform the whole mass of the people" because "they are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty."

From the Back Cover

Could you imagine being ruled by a lunatic who executed his own mother, burned Christian captives in his garden for light at night, and used treason laws to torture and kill anyone he considered a threat? The Romans suffered such a nightmare for fourteen years under the dominion of Emperor Nero (54-68).

What if your ruler had a penchant for skinning people alive, roasting them upon red-hot coals, and spoke of the "great beauty" of twitching bodies impaled on stakes? Such a despot existed: Vlad III, more commonly known as Vlad the Impaler, terrorized the region that is now Romania for six years (1456-1462).

How would you feel if your country were in the hands of a man who, through genocidal famines, mass executions, and forced labor camps, was responsible for the deaths of approximately twenty million victims? That is only a sampling from the annals of Joseph Stalin, who suppressed the Soviet Union for thirty-one years (1922-1953).

History has many, many other horrifying examples of tyrants using power to wantonly and sadistically repress populaces, but here is the point: while philosophers and theologians may argue whether Man is inherently evil, we can know that he is capable of evil deeds of stupefying magnitude and that he can execute his destructive plans with alarming brilliance and ambition.

Indeed, some of the cruelest rulers in history were also some of the most intelligent and calculating, rising to power through ingenious intrigue and social and political maneuvering. And what of the populations who allowed themselves to be subjected to such inhuman abuse? "The marvel of all history is the patience with which men and women submit to burdens unnecessarily laid upon them by their governments," wrote George Washington.

You have to ask yourself a question: do you really think such tragedies could never happen again? Do you think that human nature has radically transformed and that somehow the "defects" that drove past dictators to such depths of depravity are magically gone?

I think we can safely answer "no."

"Experience hath shown, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny," said Thomas Jefferson.

How hard would it be for our country or civilization to regress into a form of domination familiar to our ancestors? To quote Burke again, "All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing."

Do not think that we are forever guaranteed the living conditions we inherited by some divine influence--history has thoroughly discredited that naïve assumption.

It took our species thousands of bloody, torturous, and degrading years to climb out of the pits of hell and recognize the sanctity of life, the value of the individual, and the equality of our fellows. To this effect, Madison proudly declared, "The happy Union of these States is a wonder; their Constitution a miracle; their example the hope of Liberty throughout the world." This is the legacy gifted to us by our ancestors; one that was purchased with the courage, blood, and lives of many millions.

Simply put, do you want the history books to remember you as a part of the hopeless derelicts who abandoned their rights and let their civilization sink back into a dark age of inequality and subjugation? Or do you want to be remembered like our ancestors, to whom this book was dedicated?

Brave, tough-minded patriots who sounded the alarm against the dangers of government oppression of the individual and who risked their lives and fortunes to uphold their beliefs that government is but an instrument of the people, its powers forever subordinate to their rights as human beings.

By the end of this book, I hope to count you among the latter.

Madison boldly declared that governments are instituted for the sole reason of securing the people "in the enjoyment of life and liberty, with the right of acquiring and using property, and generally of pursuing and obtaining happiness and safety."

Let's together do what it takes to provide that great truth with the vitality it needs to see us and our descendants through the centuries to come.

From the Inside Flap

There is no record of history as bloody and battered as that of the power to rule.

Countless millions have been marched to their graves during wars fought over the whims of and in the interests of lone individuals. Countless millions more have suffered lives of wretched, inescapable slavery simply because they were born to the wrong classes. Entire empires, built by the brilliance and diligence of generations, have crumbled in the hands of despotic kings with no more competence or intelligence than the lowliest beggar.

For many centuries, Man was locked in a social mechanism whereby an elite few arbitrarily wielded power, swinging the masses to and fro with little or no recognition or respect for the divine inspiration alight in us all. During Man's trudge through the dystopian Dark Ages, however, a radical idea emerged and, like a tale of Atlantis, fired imaginations to dream of a world never before known.

This simple concept was the first breath of what would become the greatest ideological transformation in history: all human beings, regardless of gender, status, wealth, and religion, are born equally free and with the right to the enjoyment of life, liberty, and property and the right to the pursuit of happiness. These natural rights are born with us, exist within us, and cannot be taken from us by any human power without taking our lives. Moreover, these rights formed fundamental law to which all manmade systems of domination or governance were subordinate.

This philosophy was a golden ray of light that punctured the gloom of past tyrannies, and it was the substance of groundbreaking recognitions of personal liberties such as the Magna Carta, the writ of habeas corpus, the Petition of Right, the Northwest Ordinance, and others.

As history would have it, the American colonists would be the people to carry this ideology to its full fruition. "America was opened," Emerson wrote, "after the feudal mischief was spent, and so the people made a good start. We began well. No inquisitions here, no kings, no nobles, no dominant church. Here heresy has lost its terrors."

The first draft of the U.S. Constitution was completed in 1787, but it lacked a vital component: a positive statement of inalienable rights guaranteed to all citizens of the nation. Jefferson stated this powerfully in a letter to John Adams, writing, "Let me add that a bill of rights is what the people are entitled to against every government on earth, general or particular, and what no just government should refuse, or rest on inference." Despite arguments that a Bill of Rights was unnecessary as the Constitution gave government no power to infringe on such rights, Jefferson worried that, without such a declaration, legislative tyranny would be an imminent danger for the decades and centuries to come and that executive tyranny would follow.

After two years of controversy and debate, the triumph of individual liberty against government power, one of history's noblest themes, was finally epitomized in the American Bill of Rights--the inviolable laws to be added to the Constitution that guarded against abuse of "the great rights of mankind," as Madison put it.

As you will soon see, the Bill of Rights is a triumphant proclamation of sacred truths upon which freedom depends and a heroic defense of the individual against the majority, subject as it is to demagoguery and deception.

By the end of this book, you will not only fully understand and appreciate the liberties the Framers guaranteed you, your family, your friends, and society, but you will see how these liberties are the foundation of the lifestyle you currently enjoy. You will also glimpse the misery of life without them--a nightmare that our Founders dared to believe they could prevent from ever happening again.

A cursory review of the chronicles of history shows that every civilization, empire, and nation has suffered or died from power accumulating in the wrong hands. Lord Acton famously wrote that "power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely," and human nature, unfortunately, is just as predictable today as it was then.

"God grants liberty only to those who love it, and are always ready to guard and defend it," said Daniel Webster. The Founders were possessed of incredible compassion, insight, and forethought, but they are no longer here to protect us. Their legacy is not inscribed papers but a magnificent vision of a free, prosperous nation whose people, as Patrick Henry boldly declared, value liberty over all--even their lives. That vision must continue, and we are the only ones who can, individual by individual, give it light and strength.

True patriotism is belief in the ideals that this nation was founded upon; it is not ignorance of them and unthinking, endless devotion to government. So never forget the Founders' message that we the people are governed only by our consent, that we create government, and that we have the right to change government if it exceeds its limitations. Do not take your freedoms for granted lest they slowly erode until, like an ancient parchment, they crumble at the slightest provocation.

Become educated, encourage others to follow, and together, despite our divergent political leanings, we can stand united as human beings who recognize and respect each other's rights to enjoy life and liberty, to acquire and possess property, and to pursue and obtain happiness and safety.

Edition details

• Publisher: Oculus Publishers
• Publication date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1938895223
• ISBN 13: 9781938895227
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 190