The Tea Party: Three Principles - Hardcover

Price Foley, Elizabeth

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1107011353 ISBN 13: 9781107011359

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2012

Synopsis

In The Tea Party: Three Principles, constitutional law professor Elizabeth Price Foley takes on the mainstream media's characterization of the American Tea Party movement, asserting that it has been distorted in a way that prevents meaningful political dialogue and may even be dangerous for America's future. Foley sees the Tea Party as a movement of principles over politics. She identifies three 'core principles' of American constitutional law that bind the decentralized, wide-ranging movement: limited government, unapologetic US sovereignty and constitutional originalism. These three principles, Foley explains, both define the Tea Party movement and predict its effect on the American political landscape. Foley explains the three principles' significance to the American founding and constitutional structure. She then connects the principles to current issues such as health care reform, illegal immigration, the war on terror, and internationalism.

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Review:

“Lambasted by the left and maligned by the media, the Tea Party may be the political phenomenon of the decade. No one has captured the energy and essence of this vital movement better than Elizabeth Price Foley. She combines scholarship and lucid writing with a profound respect – embraced by the Tea Party – for the U.S. Constitution as it was originally crafted to secure individual liberty and restrain government power. While I might quarrel with Professor Foley’s enthusiasm for America’s muscular global role, her intellectual defense of the Tea Party and her application of its credo to urgent and controversial issues have produced a powerful, provocative, and timely book, which I highly recommend.” – Robert A. Levy, Chairman, Cato Institute

“Elizabeth Price Foley has produced an interesting and important work on the constitutional basis for the agenda of the Tea Party movement.... I do believe anyone interested in understanding how the growth of the welfare-regulatory state violates the constitution and threatens liberty can benefit from reading this book.” – Ron Paul, United States Congressman (R-TX)

“Elizabeth Price Foley’s The Tea Party is a clear and straightforward explication of what the Tea Party Movement is all about, and is required reading for anyone who wants to understand the current political climate. With this slim, provocative volume, Foley once again demonstrates why she is one of constitutional law’s rising stars.”– Glenn Harlan Reynolds, Beauchamp Brogan Distinguished Professor of Law, University of Tennessee College of Law

“At last, someone conversant with the large issues now roiling contemporary American politics has taken the Tea Party seriously and concluded that it is intellectually substantial and politically constructive. Elizabeth Price Foley, one of today’s most stimulating writers on constitutional law, finds much to admire in the Tea Party’s coherent braiding of three themes – limited government, constitutional originalism, and an unapologetic defense of U.S. sovereignty.” – George F. Will

Book Description:

In this book, Elizabeth Price Foley asserts that the mainstream media's characterization of the American Tea Party movement is distorted. Foley sees the decentralized, wide-ranging group as a movement bound by allegiance to three 'core principles' of American constitutional law: limited government, unapologetic US sovereignty and constitutional originalism. She explains how these principles predict the Tea Party's impact on the American political landscape.

About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1107011353
• ISBN 13: 9781107011359
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 254