We the Elites: Why the US Constitution Serves the Few - Image 1

£85.00

Pluto Press We the Elites: Why the US Constitution Serves the Few

Name: We the Elites: Why the US Constitution Serves the Few
Brand: Pluto Press
Price: 80.0 GBP
Availability: InStock

Business & Economic History

Price History & Forecast

Last 81 days • 81 data points (No recent data available)

Historical

Generating forecast...

Price Distribution

Price distribution over 81 days • 2 price levels

Days at Price

Current Price

Price Analysis

Most common price: £80 (41 days, 50.6%)

Price range: £80 - £85

Price levels: 2 different prices over 81 days

Description

Written by 55 of the richest white men, and signed by only 39 of them, the US constitution is the sacred text of American nationalism. Popular perceptions of it are mired in idolatry, myth and misinformation - many Americans have opinions on the constitution but have little idea what it says. This book examines the constitution for what it is – a rulebook for elites to protect capitalism from democracy. Social movements have misplaced faith in the constitution as a tool for achieving justice when it actually impedes social change through the many roadblocks and obstructions we call 'checks and balances'. This stymies urgent progress on issues like labour rights, poverty, public health and climate change, propelling the American people and rest of the world towards destruction. Robert Ovetz's reading of the constitution shows that the system isn't broken. Far from it. It works as it was designed to.

Product Specifications

Brand: Pluto Press
Format: hardcover
ASIN: 0745344739
Category: Books > Subjects > Business, Finance & Law > Biographies & Histories > Business & Economic History
Domain: Amazon UK
Release Date: 07 October 2022
Listed Since: 09 December 2021

Barcode

No barcode data available

Pluto Press We the Elites: Why the US Constitution Serves the Few

Price History & Forecast

Price Distribution

Price Analysis

Description

Product Specifications

Barcode

Similar Products You Might Like

Righteous Anger at the Wicked States: The Meaning of the Founders' Constitution

Secular Revelations: The Constitution of the United States and Classic American Literature

Re-reading the Constitution: New Narratives in the Political History of England's Long Nineteenth Century

Why Constitutions Matter

Philosophical Dimensions Of The Constitution: An Amintaphil Volume

Constitutional Structure and Purposes: Critical Commentary: 98 (Contributions in Legal Studies)

American Compact: James Madison and the Problem of Founding (American Political Thought)

NEW DIRECTIONS IN BRITISH POLITICS?: Essays on the Evolving Constitution

The Nature of Constitutional Rights: The Invention and Logic of Strict Judicial Scrutiny (Cambridge Studies on Civil Rights and Civil Liberties)

Progressive Constitutionalism: Reconstructing the Fourteenth Amemdment (Constitutional Conflicts)

Constitutionalism and Legal Reasoning: 79 (Law and Philosophy Library, 79)

A Debt Against the Living: An Introduction to Originalism

Constitutional Dictatorship: Crisis Government in the Modern Democracies

Constitutional Interpretation in Singapore: Theory and Practice (Routledge Law in Asia)

Constitutional Crowdsourcing: Democratising Original and Derived Constituent Power in the Network Society (Elgar Monographs in Constitutional and Administrative Law)

New Order of the Ages: Time, the Constitution, and the Making of Modern American Political Thought (Princeton Legacy Library): 921

Constitutional Interpretation in Singapore: Theory and Practice (Routledge Law in Asia)

The Cambridge Handbook on the Material Constitution

The Identity of the Constitutional Subject: Selfhood, Citizenship, Culture, and Community (Discourses of Law)

The Constitution and the American Presidency

The Cambridge Companion to the United States Constitution

New Constitutional Horizons: Towards a Pluralist Constitutional Theory (Oxford Constitutional Theory)

Private Property and the Limits of American Constitutionalism: The Madisonian Framework and Its Legacy

New Economic Constitutionalism in Europe (Studies of the Oxford Institute of European and Comparative Law)