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    The Oath and the Office: A Guide to the Constitution for Future Presidents
    The Oath and the Office: A Guide to the Constitution for Future Presidents
    The Oath and the Office: A Guide to the Constitution for Future Presidents
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    The Oath and the Office: A Guide to the Constitution for Future Presidents

    Written by Corey Brettschneider

    Narrated by Mike Chamberlain

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    About this audiobook

    Can the president launch a nuclear attack without congressional approval? Is it ever a crime to criticize the president? Can states legally resist a president's executive order? Corey Brettschneider takes us on a deep dive into the U.S. Constitution to answer questions that, in our tumultuous era, Americans are asking more than ever before. From the document itself and from history's pivotal court cases, we learn why certain powers were granted to the presidency, how the Bill of Rights limits those powers, and what "we the people" can do to influence the nation's highest public office-including, if need be, removing the person in it. Brettschneider breathes new life into the Constitution's articles and amendments, stressing its key principles and illustrating their relevance to all our lives today. The Oath and the Office empowers readers, voters, and future presidents to read and understand our nation's founding document.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHighbridge Company
    Release dateOct 16, 2018
    ISBN9781684414598
    The Oath and the Office: A Guide to the Constitution for Future Presidents

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      Dear Future President: herein lies a guide to your constitutional responsibilities. Read, learn, follow. It's also a citizens' manual - after all, We The People hold the cards in this democracy, at least in theory. The author explains in clear language how the most critical parts of the Constitution and the Bill of Rights came about and how the reasoning of Madison, Hamilton, and Jefferson - despite their blindness to the rights of non-white, non-male, non-landowners - set up basic commandments on how to avoid autocracy. Implicit, without being heavy handed, is the author's summary of the differing approaches of our prior and current presidents to the magnificent framework. "When you get to be president, there are all those things - the honors, the twenty one gun salutes...you have to remember it isn't for you. It's for the Presidency." - Harry S. TrumanQuotes: "You should never use the bully pulpit to speak in a way that is contrary to the values of the Constitution.""Today, a primary duty of a president is to continue the process of making "We The People" become more inclusive. Refusing this duty warrants the most severe constitutional punishment.""The idea of America is that minority religions don't have to sit quietly and watch the pageant of bigger religions take place on a larger stage. We are a nation that refuses to establish one religion as true or official."