The Audiobook and .pdf versions of CourtZero are now available for free download!
This book was self-published in October, 2004. While much has changed in the American political landscape since that time, the author hopes that some might still find this book informative and interesting.
The judicial branch of our government is malfunctioning, and representative government is at risk. The meaning of the Constitution shifts with the attitudes of judges. This book explains the history and dangers of judicial activism in an easily understandable way. The author, founder of CourtZero.org explains in concise, plain, and powerful language, the decisions of the black-robed decision makers that affect us all. If you are interested in compelling social issues, the role of the ACLU, the plight of the Boy Scouts, the future of privacy, or the rise of state-sanctioned euthanasia, this book is for you. -- we can reform the most powerful branch of the most powerful government in the history of the world, not because we hate it, but because we love what it is meant to be.
Downloads:
You can download mp3 files of the entire CourtZero audiobook by clicking on the chapter links below. It’s up to you to pick which chapters you want to download, but you are welcome to them all. Obviously, the book is best when listened to in its entirety, and in order.
The .pdf version of the entire book in one file is available by clicking on this link.
Table of Contents: free mp3 files
Introduction – for a complete book, download this as well as the chapters
CHAPTERS:
1. CourtZero – What this is all about
3. Ed, Larry, and Jerry -- this is a favorite of kids learning about the courts
7. A living, breathing constitution
8. Why should we care about judicial activism?
9. What the courts have given us
12. Freedom of association parts 1 (Boy Scouts), 2 (Catholic Charities), and 3 (Boy Scouts part 2)
14. Establishment Clause part one and part two
15. Euthanasia part one (Terri Schiavo) and part two – infant euthanasia (foreshadowing the Sun Hudson case).
17. Do courts do more harm than good?
18. The special interest menace
20. Letters from the CourtZero editor: (personal injury); (foreign law); (pornography); (partial-birth abortion); and (the free-speech safety valve).
21. Impeachment and amendments will not work
22. The plan to confront the courts -- we can reform the most powerful branch of the most powerful government in the history of the world, not because we hate it, but because we love what it is meant to be.
Appendix
Bill of Rights
Article III
e-mail to postmaster @ courtzero.org