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Language English Pages 272 (Hardcover) ISBN 1451606273 Country United States of America | 4.2/5 Goodreads Publication date August 13, 2013 Originally published 13 August 2013 Page count 272 (Hardcover) Publisher Simon & Schuster | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Mark levin talks w glenn beck re his book the liberty amendments restoring the american republic
The Liberty Amendments: Restoring the American Republic is a book by the American talk radio host and lawyer Mark Levin, published in 2013. In it, Levin lays out and makes a case for eleven Constitutional amendments which he believes would restore the Constitution’s chief components: federalism, republicanism, and limited government.
Contents
Summary
The eleven amendments proposed by Levin:
- Impose Congressional term limits
- Repeal the Seventeenth Amendment, returning the election of Senators to state legislatures
- Impose term limits for Supreme Court Justices and restrict judicial review
- Require a balanced budget and limit federal spending and taxation
- Define a deadline to file taxes (one day before the next federal election)
- Subject federal departments and bureaucratic regulations to periodic reauthorization and review
- Create a more specific definition of the Commerce Clause
- Limit eminent domain powers
- Allow states to more easily amend the Constitution by bypassing Congress
- Create a process where two-thirds of the states can nullify federal laws
- Require photo ID to vote and limit early voting
Levin would have these amendments proposed to the states by a convention of the states as described in Article Five of the Constitution.
Reception
The book debuted at #1 on The New York Times Best Seller list in all three categories for which it qualified.
References
The Liberty Amendments Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA