OUR CONSTITUTION
READ MY ARTICLE ON BIRTHRIGHT CITIZENSHIP
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WE HAVE A REPUBLIC NOT A DEMOCRACY!
How did the founders of our Republic want the federal government to operate? Has it been changed by the U.S. Supreme Court? What is the proper role of the Court? Its rulings are not the Law of the Land. U.S. Constitution, Art. VI.
After reading this book you will be able to discuss issues the Court has decided more clearly and be able to make decisions about who you think your ruler should be. Do you want an uncertain future where the Court continues to rule you by its decisions or where you are ruled as established by those who created the Constitution, by your elected representatives?
Don Is Truly A Constitutional Scholar
I read this book early this month and I was humbled by the experience. I consider myself fairly well versed on the Constitution, but Don's well researched approach to the topic of The Supreme Court impressed me greatly. The domino effect of misinterpretations of the Constitution has much to do with the sad state in which we are today. Every American should read this book.
On the new book:
The Added Chapters Are Significant
I bought "The Tyrannical Rule of the U.S. Supreme Court" and was lucky enough to have Don send me the additional chapters that make this book even better than the first. My favorite parts are his research and views on the pursuit of a fleeing suspect and his very logical conclusion on Miranda. Don skillfully dissects the history behind the Fifth Amendment and exposes the handcuffs that the Court has put on law enforcement. In applying those constraints, the Supreme Court has made us less safe, and at the same time, has unduly favored the rights of those who commit crimes and especially those who repeatedly commit violent crimes.
# Tags:-#Inspirational-#Couldn’t Put It Down
Rick V, Vancouver WA
Review posted on Barnes & Noble
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It replaces the first book, with some of the first book’s chapters and additional material.
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Book reviews
Don Brockett's book well documents the historical debate over how the US Constitution should be interpreted. The book points out it was the Supreme Court that declared its superiority over constitutional interpretation. Don addresses judicial excesses he finds when the Supreme Court Justices look beyond the Constitution’s plain words and interprets the Constitution as if it is today's document without respect to written intent.
Appointment of Supreme Court Justices tend to follow political trends. In a presidential election year who is elected and makes Justice’s appointments will by those selections establish American legal, social and political answers for the next 15 years.
While I view the Constitution as a living document to be interpreted to respect human, technological and societal effects, the issues Don raises are worth respecting and knowing.
Richard P. Guy, Chief Justice of the Washington State Supreme Court (Ret.)
In thinking about the Supreme Court, tyranny is not a word that would occur to most Americans. The appearance of tyranny in the book’s title properly sets the stage for what the reader will learn. The reader will be educated that what the Court has done to our Constitution is plainly tyrannical. The Tyrannical Rule of the Supreme Court explains the judicial tyranny of the U.S. Supreme Court in the straightforward fashion needed for Americans to understand not only the work of the court, but why it is often viewed as a political, not necessarily legal lightning rod.
The book provides an excellent explanation of what the 14th Amendment was intended to achieve: the recognition of newly freed slaves as full members of American society. With that understanding the reader is enabled to recognize how the 14th Amendment has been misused by the Court to impose the justices’ policy preferences on American society.
By the book’s conclusion, the reader will join Donald Brockett and Chief Justice Roberts in asking about the Supreme Court: “Who do they think they are?”
David J. Shestokas, an attorney licensed in IL and FL, author of Constitutional Sound Bites and Creating the Declaration of Independence:
REVIEW ABOUT A SUBSTACK POST
This commentary is from former Spokane County DA Donald Brockettt. It is from one of his articles on dcbrockett.substack.com. It clearly shows the drift in the Supreme Court away from our Constitutionally protected liberties. Sadly, this has happened under both Democrat and Republican Administrations. It is a good read.
Douglas Jones, Spokane WA
About don
I was born in Chicago IL in 1936. As a child my family was nomadic moving to Los Angeles, CA, Santa Barbara, CA, and eventually to Spokane WA in 1947. I graduated from Lewis & Clark High School in Spokane in 1954.
I then attended Gonzaga University and graduated from the GU Law School in 1961. After passing the bar exam, I began a 33 year career in the Spokane County Prosecuting Attorney's office, 25 years as the elected Prosecuting Attorney. I retired in 1995 and discovered I had cancer so I endured chemotherapy treatment for the next 9 months.
I then entered private practice with the law firm Phillabaum, Ledlin, Matthews & Sheldon, retiring after seven years of active civil practice and practiced with the firm as “of counsel”. After practicing for 52 years, I became an honorary member of Washington State Bar Association.
Then getting an urge to write about the U.S. Supreme Court, because of my concern with how it had affected the country in violation of the Constitution, I began my search of its cases. The result was "The Tyrannical Rule Of The U.S. Supreme Court; How The Court Has Violated The Constitution" which was published in 2015.
I have been married to the former Nerita Jean Corigliano for 65 years. We had 5 children, 4 daughters and one son. One of our daughters, Lisa, died in a plane crash in 1987. We currently have 13 grandchildren, 18 great-grandchildren with two more on the way, and one great-great grandchild on the way.
Don
Don & Jean
Front row - Craig, Jean, Gina Back row - Tina, Lisa, Angela