Constitutional Chaos: What Happens When the Government Breaks Its Own Laws First Printing Edition

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In this incisive and insightful book, Judge Andrew P. Napolitano peels back the legal veneer and shows how politicians, judges, prosecutors, and bureaucrats are trampling the U.S. Constitution in the name of law and order and fighting terrorism. Napolitano reveals how they:

silence the First Amendment
shoot holes in the Second
break some laws to enforce others
entrap citizens
steal private property
seize evidence without warrant
imprison without charge
kill without cause

Pundits on the right, left, and center have praised Constitutional Chaos for its penetrating examination of our rights and liberties in the post-9/11 world.

"Has the war on terrorism taken away some of your rights? In a non-ideological way, Judge Andrew P. Napolitano answers that crucial question. This book will open your eyes."-Bill O'Reilly

"This book is a wake-up call for all who value personal freedom and limited government."-Rush Limbaugh

"In all of the American media, Judge Napolitano is the most persistent, uncompromising guardian of both the letter and the spirit of the Constitution. . ."-Nat Hentoff

Judge Andrew P. Napolitano is Fox News Channel's senior judicial analyst, seen by millions on The Big Story with John Gibson, The O'Reilly Factor, Fox and Friends, and other shows. His articles and commentaries have been published in the Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Newark Star Ledger, and other national publications.

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Judge Andrew P. Napolitano is Fox News Channel's senior judicial analyst, currently seen by millions of viewers weeknights on The Big Story and The O'Reilly Factor. Napolitano is the youngest person in New Jersey history to receive a lifetime judgeship. He is bright (graduate of Princeton and Notre Dame Law School), articulate (four times voted most outstanding professor at the two law schools at which he taught), and broadcast-experienced (as a daily fixture on Fox News Channel since 1998). He is the author of Constitutional Chaos and The Constitution In Exile.

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Publisher: Thomas Nelson; First Printing edition (February 5, 2006)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1595550402
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Finally, a judge says it!

ByHighlanderJuanon June 7, 2009

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Because I am so upset at the present Obama administration and Congress and their continual shredding and violation of our country's rule of constitutional law, this is the first of ten books I have purchased and will read this summer.

I am perhaps, not your regular reader of legal books. During an earlier five year period, I studied the law as a pro se litigant. As part of my personal legal training program, I read many law books and between 40 and 50 Supreme Court decisions in detail, learned how to do legal research and write legal briefs, and I drove the highways looking for traffic tickets so that I could fight them in court. For me, this was wonderful training program because it taught me how the law works, and without me suffering any more loss than my time and energy. I also served on a criminal court jury in which I was able to overturn a conviction of what I was able to convince the rest of the jury was an innocent man (yes, I believe in jury nullification of bad law).

When I read the Judge's book, I was immediately amazed to find that what the Judge was saying was consistent with my own personal experience. This was gratifying, but for me, he was preaching to the choir. I like this judge and his easy-to-read book because he tells it like it is - this is an excellent book for readers not familiar with our legal system, want to learn the practical side of the law, believe things have gone sideways legally in our country, and who believe that we Americans have been kept ignorant of the law for too long. It's a really good first book of awareness of the problems we are seeing in our government, and BTW, the problems ARE really as bad as the Judge tells us. We need to fix our country and get it back on its constitutional course and under our control. This is not going to be an easy job for us voters, but Constitutional Chaos is a great starter book

As a side note, I'm enrolled in our local college for another degree, earning excellent grades, and our law school won't let me take a simple constitutional law course. The reason they wont: the ABA doesn't allow anyone but matriculated law school students to take law courses. The lawyer's union (ABA) is keeping tight controls on who is allowed to learn the law, as though understanding the law was some kind of higher level or privileged knowledge. It's not. Anyone can learn the law, and Constitutional Chaos is a great beginning.

Become legally savvy, because in our nation with over 2 million laws, you need to know where you stand legally and how you can legally determine your own future. Buy this book. Study it. Learn from it.

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Speak up!

ByCn in alaskaon May 10, 2017

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Don't let go of our freedom of speech. Purchased for my nephew and he loves this book. Thank God for a author with backbone.

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ByJoseph P. Darak Jr.on February 9, 2007

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Our country is in danger. Our children may not know freedom in their adult lives. When you ignore the Constitution or interpret it dishonestly you are then at the whim of every left and right winger who want to use government to suit their cause. Many progressives (actually socialists) just won't get honest enough to say they want to throw away the constitution. They're at the pre-stage of that where they put down the people who wrote it. Thankfully Judge Napolitano gives us a great history of crucial times and cases that started leading us away from the intent of the constitution. He gives us backround to what the founders intended, and lots of good examples from the current day which herald the demise of our freedom with the exile of the constitution. He also includes the actual Constitution in its entirety and some suggestions as to how we can fight to stay a free nation. It's well written, an enjoyable read, and since they evidently don't teach this in school anymore it should be passed around for everyone to read. It will help define who we are and give ammuniton against the collective beehive globalists that want to lead us into their visionary utopia, which will actuate as fascism. The constitution was written to protect the people from big government. Now we have people who want government to do everything for us even at the loss of individual freedom. Educate yourself to stay free, please read this book.

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Great Book

ByCharles Culbertsonon July 11, 2017

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Great Book

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I knew the government was bad. He put more things into perseptive

ByShaneze Familyon March 3, 2017

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I knew the government was bad. He put more things into perseptive. Hoping Mr. Trump reads some of the things the Judge writes.
I saw him often on Megan Kelly Show.

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Lying, Cheating, and Conning in the Name of the US of A.

ByKevin Currie-KnightVINE VOICEon May 16, 2009

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In the remarkable film Frost/Nixon, a climactic moment happens when Nixon's character attempts to excuse his illegal conduct by exclaiming that "When the President does it, it is not illegal!" This line is obviously intended to provoke disgust in the audience. Reading Andrew Nepalitano's "Constitutional Chaos," is like hearing this line over and over and over, and not by one fictional character, but by hundreds of members of the executive and judicial branches. AS Nepalitano deftly shows, the government has been using a line similar to this for years.

The thesis here is simple and scary: under hte guise of "serving the greater good," an overzealous executive branch and lap-dog judicial branch have eroded any semblance of due process in our criminal justice system. Prosecutors may lie to suspects in order to extract confessions, witnesses are frequently bought off (not with plea deals, but cash), warrants are often optional and tenuous, and anyone labeled a national security threat may be denied a lawyer, held indefinitely, and tried by the executive branch in secret. For anyone who thinks they know the depths of governmental abuse pertaining to criminal proceddings, Neaplitano will disabuse you of this idea.

Adding muster to Nepalitano's seemingly unbelievable tale is that he has lived this as a Federal judge. Nepalitano is not only recounting examples gotten from text books or scholarly research, but also from his own first-hand experience as a Federal judge. As he says in a chapter called "Personal Oddysey," which recounts his journey from a conservative collge student to a libertarian judge, has has heard police officers lie and had to let obviously guilty defendants go because their due process rights were knowingly and egregiously violated too many times. "What caused me to flip from being a law-and-order conservative to a rugged individualist? The answer: My eight years on the bench." (loc. 1439, kindle ed.)

To be honest, I only had two real problems with this book. First, and most importantly, this is a book meant to outrage rather than argue. By that, I mean that Nepalitano is writing for an audience he assumes already agrees with him, and therefore does not really engage in argument of his points. He takes it as a given that his audience will be outraged by the examples he profiles. While I AM one who agrees with him on most scores, I can see how his lack of argument against some obvious objections will render this book less persuasive than it could be.

Secondly, the one area I disagree with Nepalitano on is in his view that natural law jurisprudence (that our rights are NATURAL rather than government-made) is wrong and shallowly defended. He suggests that positivists (who see rights as only sensical when government enumerates them and enforces them) as devaluing the idea of rights. This is quite false. As Alan Dershowitz's book "Rights from Wrongs," correctly notes, recognizing the fragility of rights (rather than assuming that we have our rights irrespective of what the government does) makes defending rights all the more important. I am quite suprised that Nepalitano's first chapter, where he defends natural rights jurisprudence, does not engage Dershowitz's book EVEN ONCE. It is, though, in line with Nepalitano's lack of serious argument in this book.

But those are two fairly small issues. Overall, Nepalitano has written a book that everyone should read. Letting government get away from us is not a liberal or conservative issue (Nepalitano equally suggets that Reno should have been tried criminally and that Ashcroft used tactics similar to Stalin). It is an American and human issue that we should all be concerned about.

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Two Stars

Not sure if I can believe anything Napolitano writes as an ex faux news reporter.

Published 3 months ago by $grquin

No Comment. The man speaks for himself.

Published 8 months ago by tom

I love Judge Napolitano's views

Arrived just as I expected. Thank you. Can't wait to read it. I love Judge Napolitano's views.

Published 12 months ago by Amazon Customer

Andy knows his stuff. The White House pretender should ...

Andy knows his stuff. The White House pretender should take lessons.

Published 1 year ago by Howard C. Mayberry, Jr.

Five Stars

Excellent writing by the judge!

Published on April 23, 2015 by wags6666

good book. Judge Napolitano is probably the most knowledgeable ...

good book.Judge Napolitano is probably the most knowledgeable judge concerning Federal crime out there

Published on January 28, 2015 by cshpy

Five Stars

The best man to speak on subjects on a constitutional basis. Wish he was a Supreme Justice.

Published on January 11, 2015 by Panther Page

Very good

This is a should read for everyone. Very good book

Published on December 26, 2014 by akj

Another home run for the Judge!

Love the Judge and everything he writes! This one explains why the country is in such deep fertilizer!

Published on October 2, 2014 by Brian Wilson

Too Little, Too Late

This book was put in my hands by a family member who knows I enjoy political reads. Andrew Napolitano is one of few media personalities that I respect.Read more

Published on July 27, 2014 by K. Burns

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