Clarence Thomas and the Lost Constitu..., Myron Magnet
Clarence Thomas and the Lost Constitu..., Myron Magnet
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Clarence Thomas and the Lost Constitution

Author: Myron Magnet

Narrator: John McLain

Unabridged: 5 hr 34 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 10/08/2019


Synopsis

When Clarence Thomas joined the Supreme Court in 1991, he found with dismay that it was interpreting a very different Constitution from the one the framers had written—the one that had established a federal government manned by the people's own elected representatives, charged with protecting citizens' inborn rights while leaving them free to work out their individual happiness themselves, in their families, communities, and states.

Thomas, had deep misgivings about the new governmental order. He shared the framers' vision of free, self-governing citizens forging their own fate. And from his own experience growing up in segregated Savannah, flirting with and rejecting black radicalism at college, and running an agency that supposedly advanced equality, he doubted that unelected experts and justices really did understand the moral arc of the universe better than the people themselves, or that the rules and rulings they issued made lives better rather than worse. So in the hundreds of opinions he has written in more than a quarter century on the Court, he has questioned the constitutional underpinnings of the new order and tried to restore the limited, self-governing original one, as more legitimate, more just, and more free than the one that grew up in its stead. The Court now seems set to move down the trail he blazed.


About Myron Magnet

Myron Magnet, author of The Founders at Home: The Building of America, 1735-1817, was the editor of the Manhattan Institute's City Journal and is now its editor-at-large. He was awarded the National Humanities Medal in 2008.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Jean

This book is a brief introduction into the opinions and beliefs of Clarence Thomas about the fourth amendment and the fourteenth amendment to the Constitution. This is not a biography of Thomas. In addition to the discussion of the two amendments, Magnet spent some time reviewing Thomas ‘opinion on M......more

Goodreads review by David

A fascinating account of a great American and Supreme Court Justice, Clarence Thomas.......more

Goodreads review by Adam

An Excellent Study in Character During my law school days, I would often point out that - for all that he did good and all that he is venerated by conservatives - that it was Justice Thomas, and not Justice Scalia whose jurisprudence was pointing a path towards the future. This book provides an excel......more

Goodreads review by John

Great book, well researched and full of some powerful insights. This book was written by a Clarence Thomas biographer and the author is able to support the Justice’s position in several controversial decisions with relevant history details. If you want to explore the collapse of the separation of po......more

Goodreads review by Alicia

Fascinating look at Clarence Thomas and the Supreme Court. Quotes: “(Clarence Thomas) read a review of Thomas Sowell’s Race and Economics, which reassured him that he and his grandfather weren’t the only African Americans to believe that black advancement required self-reliance, education, work skills......more