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Here are two Amazon reviews which are close to bullet points:
1) 5 out of 5 stars. Amending the Constitution?
August 13, 2013
Format: Hardcover|Verified Purchase
Mark Levin is a radio host and a Constitutional scholar. Invoking Article V of the Constitution, which sets out methods for amendments, Levin has proposed a number of changes to term limits, taxation, restoring states' power and more.
Currrently, states' powers have been almost completely overruled by Federal laws and mandates, debt is out of control, stretching past two generations of American's ability to pay it off. Government spending is a significant proportion of GDP and the GDP itself is stagnating; is this caused by the heavy burden of non-productive government spending? Government regulation has even gone so far as to dictate what kind of light bulb can be manufactured and sold and choices in healthcare may soon be dictated by unelected bureaucrats. For those who think that this kind of centralized power is dangerous and even tyrannical, Levin's amendments seek to address the power that the Federal government has arrogated unto itself, a power that never was the original intent of the Founding Fathers and which reduces individual liberty significantly.
Levin's amendments include:
1. Term limits, including for justices.
2. Repealing Amendment 17 and returning the e******n of senators to state legislatures
3. A congressional supermajority to override Supreme Court decisions (overruling what could be a stacked court)
4. Spending limit based on GDP
5. Taxation capped at 15%
6. Limiting the commerce clause, and strengthening private property rights
7. Power of states to override a federal statute by a three-fifths v**e.
These ideas will be opposed by those who favor central planning and a very powerful federal government, who believe that a few should decide the fate of many, who like the current system and the way it's headed. It will also be ignored by those who think that there is too much inertia to oppose the direction we're headed. It's true there are powerful forces at work fundamentally t***sforming the nation, but it's also true that there is a plurality of opinion throughout the US. For those who wonder how we've gotten to where we are presently, and how we might restore personal liberty and more localized government, where we have MORE of a say, not less, this is a very important book and worth reading and discussing.
2) 4 out of 5 starsRestoring the American Republic
April 8, 2017
Format: Kindle Edition|Verified Purchase
In The Liberty Amendments, Mark Levin develops (if not introduces) the concept of using the Article V provision of the United States Constitution to introduce amendments. The process is not unfamiliar (and has been championed in the past by men like Eisenhower and Reagan), but Levin introduces it to a modern audience. The book specifically focuses on the still-unused technique of introducing constitutional amendments through the ability of two thirds of the states to call a convention for amendments (sometimes referred to as a "constitutional convention", though this carries the incorrect connotation of then being able to re-write the constitution).
Moving past the mechanics, Mark Levin spends the majority of the book beyond the introduction proposing a series of amendments which he believes would reaffirm fading constitutional liberty. The points are well developed and it is clear that significant thought has gone into them. He continues with his unique writing style; crisp and authoritative, and always developing a narrative as if he's prosecuting a case.
While this is a powerful and important book, I reduced my rating to "four stars" because of my one criticism; that the author relied a little to heavily on past successes. Levin chose to quote HIMSELF from all three of his previous political works (Men in Black, Liberty & Tyranny, and Ameritopia) instead of re-developing the concepts.
That was the only thing which I found to be a little jarring in the writing. Otherwise, the book is highly recommended both for its writing style and its content.
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Ok Yep I’ve read all this somewhere else.... and I know who levin is.
He’s got a few good ideas but he misses the JackPot
Repeal the Fraud 16th
Enforce the 10th and some others
He also misses the entire Boat on some other issues destroying our nation... Ive had this argument here on OPP in countless Topics and posts with many over the past few years...
I’m glad you guys are all waking up to the culmination of inactions leading up to the disastrous state of affairs we are in...
Too Little
Too late
Too bad in my humble opinion which is no longer Humble or an Opinion but Fact after fact after facts...
I will put it on the Record again this Sunday Morning April 8, 2018...
Trump is your last chance to stop the damages and reverse course, but it doesn’t look good so far...
This is the final lap my keyboard friends, what comes next for your country, family, children and friends is tragic.
I’m almost 99% certain that Trump has been c*********d and he’s owned by the Banksters...
Mnuchin forced on him at the Obama meeting (whiteHouse 2hours behind closed doors) some call it the Come to Jesus meeting they do with all Presidents - this is where Trump met the Bankster families and Scumbags like Bush, Carlisle group, Sachs and some others...
Now Jerome Powell (a former Carlisle Group Operative) forced on Trump to head the FED
I can give you guys over a dozen KEY Points to connect since around the time Trump began to run
What Obama was instructed to leave in his wake by these Families
What has been deployed and underway in our Economy, Banking, Policy Shaping, Proxy Wars, Psyops and every other Deep State, NWO, U.N. Plot and methodology known to man...
The Usual Suspects are working from behind the Scenes and could careless what Trump does or says...
They’re just waiting for him to cross the line and BANG !
I pray I”m wrong, I really really do, but all the evidence points otherwise.
Your Gov’t in all branches, both parties, all agencies is seriously Hijacked by people who have lost their way and have no inclination to reverse course.
There is no Storm
No 3D chess
No plan actually
No Indictments
No secret Q leaving clues to some super Secret Master Plan to take down all the above... totally ridiculous !
Trump has Powers and Authority he can use to begin the Tangible Actions to Stop all the Bulls**t that got us here but he just hasn’t done anything really.
Fire Sessions
Go Ahead and Fire Mueller, Too bad !
I can go on and on