Griffin & Lash America's counter-revolution: the constitution revisited, paperback/sheldon richman

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Description This book challenges the assumption that the Constitution was a landmark in the struggle for liberty.

Instead, Sheldon Richman argues, it was the product of a counter-revolution, a setback for the radicalism represented by America's break with the British empire.

Drawing on careful, credible historical scholarship and contemporary political analysis, Richman suggests that this counter-revolution was the work of conservatives who sought a nation of power, consequence, and grandeur.

America's Counter-Revolution makes a persuasive case that the Constitution was a victory not for liberty but for the agendas and interests of a militaristic, aristocratic, privilege-seeking ruling class.

The Anti-Federalists were right: The pursuit of national greatness inevitably diminishes liberty and centralizes government.

The U.

Constitution did both, as Sheldon Richman demonstrates in this powerfully argued anarchist case against the blueprint for empire known as the U.

Constitution.

--Bill Kauffman, author, Forgotten Founder, Drunken Prophet: The Life of Luther Martin The libertarian movement has long suffered from a constitutional fetishism that embraces an ahistorical reverence for the U.

Constitution.

Far too many are unaware of the extent to which the framing and adoption of the Constitution was in fact a setback for the cause of liberty.

Sheldon Richman, in a compilation of readable, well researched, and compelling essays, exposes the historical, theoretical, and strategic errors in the widespread reification of a purely political document.

With no single correct interpretation, the Constitution has been predictably unable to halt the growth of the modern welfare-warfare American State.

I urge all proponents of a free society to give his book their diligent attention.

--Jeffrey Rogers Hummel, Professor, San Jose State University; author, Emancipating Slaves, Enslaving Free Men: A History of the American Civil War No state or government can limit itself thr.