{"product_id":"constitutional-myths-what-we-get-wrong-and-how-to-get-it-right","title":"Constitutional Myths: What We Get Wrong and How to Get It Right","description":"Americans of late have taken to waving the Constitution in the air and proclaiming, \"The founders were on MY side! See, it's all right here!\" But these phantom constitutions bear little relation to the historical one.\n\nBy entering the world of the Constitution's framers, and experiencing it one day after the next as they did, Ray Raphael helps us understand how and why they created the document they did. Casting aside preconceptions and commonly held beliefs, he asks provocative questions that get to the heart of the document and its purposes: Was the aim of the Constitution really to limit government? Why didn't the framers include a Bill of Rights? Did they hate taxes? Was James Madison actually the \"Father of the Constitution,\" as proclaimed in our textbooks? Can we find the true meaning of the Constitution by reading The Federalist Papers or by revealing the framers' \"original intent\"? The answers to these questions are bound to surprise and enlighten.\n\nBefore we can consider what the framers would do if they were alive today, we first need to see what they did during their own time, not in our terms, but theirs. Only then can we begin to resolve the sweeping question that affects us all: what does the Constitution, written at a different time, mean for us today? With this meticulously researched historical tour de force, Raphael sets the record straight―and sounds a vital call for a reasoned and evidence-driven debate about our founding document.\u003cbr\u003eASIN: 1595588329\u003cbr\u003eVSKU: DBV.1595588329.VG\u003cbr\u003eCondition: Very Good\u003cbr\u003eAuthor\/Artist:Raphael, Ray\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNote:\u003c\/b\u003e Any images shown are stock photographs and product may differ from what is shown.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Notes\u003c\/b\u003e: Pages are clean with no markings. May show minor signs of wear or cosmetic defects  marks, cuts, bends, or scuffs  on the cover, spine, pages, or dust jacket. May have remainder marks on edges.  \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Dream Books Co.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41499422130234,"sku":"DBV.1595588329.VG","price":8.29,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/6011\/0138\/files\/1595588329-0.jpg?v=1783028890","url":"https:\/\/shop.dreambooksco.com\/products\/constitutional-myths-what-we-get-wrong-and-how-to-get-it-right","provider":"Dream Books Co.","version":"1.0","type":"link"}