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Preface. The birth of a book about the birth of our nation : how this book came to be / by Joshua Charles -- Introduction. The great American experiment : a user's guide / by Glenn Beck -- Novus ordo seclorum : a new order for the ages -- The great compromise -- A republic, if you can keep it -- The delicate balance of power -- Minimum government, maximum freedom -- Taxation with representation -- Truth, justice and the American way -- Appendixes. The constitution, with footnotes to the Federalist papers -- The articles of confederation -- John Jay's address to the people of New York
Beck reworks the Federalist Papers into "modern English" and provides his own illuminating commentary and annotations. For a number of the essays, he includes the viewpoints of both liberal and conservative historians and scholars, making this a fair and insightful perspective on the historical works that remain the primary source for interpreting Constitutional law and the rights of American citizens