The U.S. Constitution refers to itself as "the supreme Law of the Land." Yet today it is the Supreme Court, rather than the Constitution itself, which most determines our fundamental law -- often based on non-constitutional (even non-American) premises, such as international law. Now, under the supervision of former Attorney General Edwin Meese, and in conjunction with the nation's preeminent conservative think tank -- The Heritage Foundation -- The Heritage Guide to the Constitution brings together more than 100 of the nation's best conservative legal scholars to provide the first ever clause-by-clause examination of the complete Constitution, revealing its real meaning according to the original intent of the Framers. Considering the centrality of Constitutional interpretation to nearly every major issue dividing our nation, this is one book that belongs in every conservative's library.

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The Constitution of the United States created a representative republic marked by federalism and the separation of powers. Yet in recent decades, numerous federal judges -- led by the Supreme Court -- have used the Constitution as a blank check allowing them to substitute their own views on hot-button issues such as abortion, capital punishment and "gay marriage" for perfectly constitutional laws enacted by "We, the People" through our elected representatives. Now, The Politically Incorrect Guide™ to the Constitution shows that there is very little relationship between the Constitution ratified by the thirteen states more than two centuries ago and the "constitutional law" imposed upon us in the name of that Constitution since then. read more

Joseph Story, was a child of the American Revolution who became not only a professor of law at Harvard but a Supreme Court Justice -- the youngest ever appointed. As a witness to, and participant in, the early years of constitutional interpretation, Justice Story opens a brilliant window into the thinking of the Founders in A Familiar Exposition of the Constitution of the United States. He reminds us that a strict construction of -- and adherence to -- the Constitution was what the Founders intended. This exclusive Conservative Book Club edition of Joseph Story's masterpiece introduces a new generation to an unsurpassed work of American constitutional interpretation. With calm reason and in clear, unpretentious language, Justice Story explains every part, passage and provision of the Constitution, from Preamble to Amendments. read more

Many Americans in the early years of the Republic regarded the U.S. Constitution as a miracle. They didn't know how right they were: Over the next two hundred years, the nation chartered by that document brought about more human progress than was made in the previous five thousand. Today, however, that astonishing leap in progress is in danger of coming to a halt -- because the Constitution that inspired it has been “interpreted” out of existence by the Supreme Court. Now, in The 5000 Year Leap: A Miracle That Changed the World, W. Cleon Skousen revives respect and reverence for our nation's founding document by revealing the 28 "Principles of Freedom" that are embodied in it -- and that produced the dynamic "success formula" which proved such a sensational blessing to modern man.

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The U.S. Constitution: every politician claims to admire it, and government officials still have to swear to uphold it. But what does their alleged fidelity to our Constitution really amount to in practice?

Nothing.

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What did the Constitution mean at the time it was adopted? How should we interpret the words used by the Founding Fathers? Originalism: A Quarter-Century of Debate brings the reader a lively and fascinating discussion of the fundamental issue that has occupied the greatest legal minds in our country, and one that defines the ongoing battle for the rule of law (not of men) in America today. read more

When 1787 began, our young country was in turmoil. The central government was unable to pay off debts, there was armed insurrection in Massachusetts, and foreign governments were taking advantage of our weakness. The question of the hour, James Madison wrote, was "whether the American experiment was to be a blessing to the world or to blast forever the hopes which the republican cause had inspired." So in May of that year, delegates from across America -- including George Washington, James Madison, and Benjamin Franklin -- gathered in Philadelphia. There they debated and struggled until finally they created a new framework for governing: the Constitution of the United States. Now, in We the People: The Story of Our Constitution, bestselling author Lynne Cheney (wife of the Vice President) and master illustrator Greg Harlin team up to recreate this momentous time in American history -- a time when, in Mrs. Cheney's words, "a document was written that created our nation and offered a vision of ordered liberty to all the world."

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Popularly known as “The Federalist Papers,” The Federalist (as originally titled) is a collection of anonymous essays written by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay, meant to drum up popular support for the proposed Constitution. The text in this edition is taken from the 1864 version edited by John Church Hamilton, Alexander Hamilton’s fourth son. read more

Does the Second Amendment protect a private citizen's right to keep and bear arms? Or is this power vested solely in government? Beginning in the 1960s, a revisionist view emerged that individuals had a "right" to bear arms only in militia service -- a limited, collective right. But in the late 1980s a handful of scholars began producing an altogether persuasive analysis that changed thinking on the matter, so that today, even in canonical textbooks, bearing arms is acknowledged as an individual right. Now, Stephen Halbrook's The Founders' Second Amendment is the first book-length account of the origins of the Second Amendment, based on the Founders' own statements as found in newspapers, correspondence, debates, and resolutions.

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At its birth, America justified its independence by asserting truths said to be self-evident, according to "the Laws of Nature and Nature's God." Yet in many circles today -- especially among the learned elites of our universities and law schools the self-evident truths upon which America depends have been supplanted by the passionately held belief that no such truths exist. As a result, the federal government aggressively pursues "change" with little or no regard for the limits placed upon it by the Constitution, which many now regard as obsolete. Solution? We must restore America's founding principles as the central idea of our nation's public philosophy. Now, in We Still Hold These Truths, Matthew Spalding of The Heritage Foundation recalls America's first principles as they were understood by our Founders, in the context of our nation's history and its constitutional development from roots deep in Western civilization.

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