Six Amendments: How and Why We Ought to Change the Structure

For the primary time ever, a retired Supreme Court docket Justice presents a manifesto on how the Structure wants to vary.

By the point of his retirement in June 2010, John Paul Stevens had turn out to be the second longest serving Justice within the historical past of the Supreme Court docket. Now he attracts upon his greater than three many years on the Court docket, throughout which he was concerned with most of the defining choices of the trendy period, to supply a e book like none different. Six Amendments is a completely unprecedented name to arms, detailing six particular methods by which the Structure must be amended as a way to shield our democracy and the security and wellbeing of Americans.

Written with the identical precision and class that made Stevens's personal Court docket opinions legendary for his or her readability in addition to logic, Six Amendments is a exceptional work, each due to its unprecedented nature and, in an age of partisan ferocity, its inarguable widespread sense.