The Hidden History of the Supreme Court and the Betrayal of America by Thom Hartmann

Author:Thom Hartmann [Thom Hartmann]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers
Published: 2019-09-30T16:00:00+00:00

The Constitution Afflicts the Afflicted and Comforts the Comfortable

Challenging any part of the Constitution evokes a response like you’d get challenging the Bible to a very religious person: “How could you dare such blasphemy? This is a perfect document.”

Many Americans believe that our Constitution protects individual rights and creates a government that is, first and foremost, directed to operate in the realm of the common good (known in the Constitution as the “general welfare”). That’s simply not the case.

In fact, through our 240-plus years of existence, there have only been a few eras when “democracy” was really playing out in a big way, if democracy means that the will of the majority of the people is what becomes law.

Most of the rest of the history of our nation is the history of a relatively small group of wealthy and powerful people riding roughshod over majorities or large minorities of our population.

And that’s why the Supreme Court—with a few exceptions—most frequently sides with great wealth and the power attendant to it. That’s the predictable consequence of a Constitution that places property rights and the right to contract above most everything else.

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