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** A rigorous, independent look at America’s founding charter
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Drawing on a lifetime of experience in the law—as prosecutor, defense attorney, and constitutional scholar—William J. Watkins, Jr., offers something rare: an objective, scholarly, and truly accessible examination of what the Framers actually meant (and didn’t mean) when they wrote the Constitution. Expertly researched, fascinating, and urgent as ever, this book is indispensable for laymen and scholars alike to understand the Constitution.
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The Constitution is one of the most studied—and most willfully misunderstood—documents in American life.

How, then, should we confront the distortions layered onto the Constitution over generations? Distortions that continue to shape, and misshape, American life today?

The Independent Guide to the Constitution has the answers. This book provides a bold and independent examination of the most important legal document in modern history, without partisan noise or motivated reasoning. William J. Watkins, Jr., gives readers a meticulous, clause-by-clause analysis of America’s founding charter, revealing both the Framers’ original intentions and the modern interpretations that have reshaped constitutional governance (not always for the better).

Read it and learn:
* How modern interpretations and legal doctrines have departed from original intent
* Which constitutional “myths” have reshaped American law and politics over time
* How the Constitution was designed to secure liberty by limiting government power
* Why restoring constitutional clarity matters for today’s legal and political debates
* And much, much more…

Discover the original, time-tested principles of liberty that continue to shape and challenge American life today.
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Drawing on insights from his new book, author William J. Watkins, Jr. explores the history and distortions of key constitutional provisions with Independent Institute President Graham Walker.
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