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2 reviews
Raoul Berger

University of Oklahoma Press, 1987

The Powers of Congress
This book is simply awesome. Here, Raoul Berger focuses his in-depth analysis and attention toward the history and the original understanding of Article One-Section Eight of the Constitution: the powers of Congress. His conclusion is an inconvenient truth: most of the federal government under which we live is simply unconstitutional. Berger first explains the true relationship between the ...

The Fourteenth Amendment and the Bill of Rights

3 reviews
Raoul Berger

Univ of Oklahoma Pr, 1989

Excoriated Truth
Berger is intellectually honest about the dark history of Fourteenth Amendment, so he does not dutifully subscribe to the prevailing, liberal, revisionist view. Consequently, for telling the indisputable fact of the North's negrophobia and racism following the War between the States, his work is excoriated by most, but not all, in the legal establishment precisely because he challenges its most ...

Executive Privilege: A Constitutional Myth (Studies in Legal History)

1 review
Raoul Berger

Harvard University Press, 1974

Excellent book
I well remember reading this book 35 years ago. Berger attacks the idea of "Executive Privilege" and never lets up. He goes through the history of it, discovering there never was any discussions in the Congress or constitutional convention backing up the concept of Executive Privilege. It's basically all from memo's written up by subordinates to Eisenhower to provide him justification, after ...

Impeachment: The Constitutional Problems, Enlarged Edition

1 review
Raoul Berger

Harvard University Press, 1999

This is a must read for the House Judiciary Committee.
It's hard to believe it's been nearly 25 years since Harvard Law Professor Raoul Berger wrote his treatise on impeachment. It was then, in those turbulent years of constitutional crisis, the definitive, stabilizing voice of reason. The rock-solid scholarly research allowed calmer minds to reach beyond the excitement of the moment, and to solemnly deliberate whether the actions of our ...

GOVERNMENT BY JUDICIARY

7 reviews
RAOUL BERGER

Liberty Fund Inc., 1997

"Brown" Was Wrong: Response to Lewiston
Yes, "Brown" was indeed wrong, if wrongness is judged by adherence to the Constitution, at any rate. More important, the Bill of Rights was never intended to apply to the States, but as a check against the power of the federal government. Berger is entirely consistent with the Constitutional understanding of those checks embodied in the Bill of Rights. Second, there are no such things as "civil ...

Impeachment :The Constitutional Problems
Raoul Berger

Bantam, 1974

The one book that will help you understand the most crucial issue of our time--The impeachment of the President

Death Penalties: The Supreme Court's Obstacle Course

1 review
Raoul Berger

Harvard University Press, 1982

Not for the timid
Powerful, comprehensive, unanswerable scholarship. Read this book at your own risk if you would like to believe the U.S. Supreme Court has the authority to strike down the death penalty.