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Six Amendments: How and Why We Should Change the Constitution

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For the first time ever, a retired Supreme Court Justice offers a manifesto on how the Constitution needs to change.

By the time of his retirement in June 2010, John Paul Stevens had become the second longest serving Justice in the history of the Supreme Court. Now he draws upon his more than three decades on the Court, during which he was involved with many of the defining decisions of the modern era, to offer a book like none other. Six Amendments is an absolutely unprecedented call to arms, detailing six specific ways in which the Constitution should be amended in order to protect our democracy and the safety and wellbeing of American citizens.

Written with the same precision and elegance that made Stevens's own Court opinions legendary for their clarity as well as logic, Six Amendments is a remarkable work, both because of its unprecedented nature and, in an age of partisan ferocity, its inarguable common sense.

ISBN-13: 9780316373722

Media Type: Hardcover

Publisher: Little - Brown and Company

Publication Date: 04-22-2014

Pages: 192

Product Dimensions: 5.40(w) x 8.30(h) x 0.90(d)

Justice John Paul Stevens served on U.S. Supreme Court from 1975 until his retirement in 2010. He is the third-longest serving Justice in American history. Born in Chicago, Illinois in 1920, Stevens served in the United States Navy during World War II and graduated from Northwestern University School of Law. He was appointed to the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals in 1970 by President Richard Nixon and to the Supreme Court in 1975 by Gerald Ford. He was the author of two other books, Five Chiefs and The Making of a Justice. Justice Stevens passed away in 2019.

Table of Contents

Prologue 3

Chapter I The "Anti-Commandeering" Rule 19

Chapter II Political Gerrymandering 43

Chapter III Campaign Finance 77

Chapter IV Sovereign Immunity 111

Chapter V The Death Penalty 149

Chapter VI The Second Amendment (Gun Control) 173

Appendix: Constitution of the United States 187

Acknowledgments 239