Betrayed By the Bench: How Judge-made Law Has Transformed America's Constitution, Courts and Culture

by John A. Stormer

Book Overview

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0914053175
• ISBN13: 9780914053170
• Release Date: January 2005
• Publisher: Liberty Bell Press
• Length: 182 Pages
• Weight: 0.96 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Reagan era classic...

I understand this book was a mainstay of the 1964 Barry Goldwater campaign which Ronald Reagan supported. WOW!!! - eye opening stuff about who funded the Kinsey report, the American Law Institute, etc - and why things are changing - often for the worse. This book teaches you what they don't teach you at Harvard/Stanford. Every serious student of history and law should read this book - or remain ignorant of the real forces at play at high levels in society. I also recommend "Original Intent" by David Barton and books by Dr Cleon Skousen (see www.nccs.net). Law schools are dominated by pide piper puppets who spout the propaganda they are paid to teach - the official party line. The plain truth is submerged with piles of hogwash and historical revision and post-Christian jurisprudence.

Fairly good, but incomplete

John Stormer's book "Betrayed by the Bench" focuses on how American judges have disregarded the intent of the Founding Fathers in their interpretations of the Constitution. Stormer challenges the idea of a "living" Constitution, using quotes to prove exactly how the Founders meant it to be applied. "Betrayed by the Bench" is a fairly decent starting point for someone who has no idea that the Constitution has been subverted, and the quotes it includes are valuable, but it fails in several areas. First of all, Stormer argues that the Declaration of Independence was the "articles of incorporation" for the United States and therefore has great legal import in regards to the Constitution's interpretation. While the Declaration is of some use in helping us to understand the minds of the Founders, it was a document through which the American colonies seceded from the British empire, not one that formed an American nation. The "articles of incorporation" argument reflects a faulty understanding of America's founding. Which leads into the next error: Stormer blames modern liberal judges for loose constitutional interpretation while glowingly quoting early America's own bench legislator, John Marshall. This lack of historical understanding, as well as a failure to recognize many of the implications of supporting the Tenth Amendment he so highly touts, characterizes the entire book. Those who want a more complete documentation of how our founding document has been subverted might be better off reading "The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Constitution" instead.