The Liberty Amendments Explained
The Liberty Amendments: Restoring the American Republic |
Author: | Mark Levin |
Country: | United States |
Language: | English |
Publisher: | Simon & Schuster |
Pub Date: | August 13, 2013 |
Media Type: | Print (Hardback), paperback, Kindle, Audio |
Pages: | 272 (Hardcover) |
Isbn: | 1451606273 |
The Liberty Amendments: Restoring the American Republic is a book by the American talk radio host and lawyer Mark Levin, published in 2013.[1] 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.[2]
Summary
The eleven amendments proposed by Levin:[3]
- 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.[4]
See also
Notes and References
- News: von Spakovsky. Hans. Amendments for Liberty. March 24, 2014. National Review. September 4, 2013.
- News: Gutzman. Kevin. Do We Need a New Constitutional Convention?. March 24, 2014. The American Conservative. September 27, 2013.
- Web site: Von Spakovsky . Hans A. . COMMENTARY Amendments for Liberty Sep 4th, 2013 6 min read . heritage.org . The Heritage Foundation . 12 May 2022.
- News: Smith. Kyle. Why are major media outlets ignoring bestselling writer Mark R. Levin?. March 24, 2014. New York Post. September 1, 2013.