Daybreak
Undoing the Imerial Presidency and Forming a More Perfect Union
Published on 1. September 2009
368 pages
978-1-60980-065-9 (ISBN)
Description
Daybreak is a thorough investigation of how Bush/Cheney altered the way American government works and deteriorated the Constitution and Bill of Rights. It includes clear plans for how we may reclaim democracy, declare our rights, and truly set out for a new America. Shocking and inspirational, Daybreak provides a clear breakdown of all that we have lost, and all that we have to gain.
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Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Product notice
Reflowable
File size
0,45 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-60980-065-9 (9781609800659)
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09/2009
Seven Stories Press,U.S.
€19.00
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Person
DAVID SWANSON is cofounder of AfterDowningStreet.org, creator of ConvictBushCheney.org, the Washington director of Democrats.com, and a board member of Progressive Democrats for America. He served as press secretary for Dennis Kucinich's 2004 presidential campaign and has been a leading voice for the prosecution of Bush and Cheney for war crimes.
Content
- Intro
- Title Page
- ANOTHER PATRIOT FROM VIRGINIA
- Epigraph
- Introduction
- I. - PRESIDENTIAL POWER GRAB
- 1. POWER OF LAW
- 2. POWER OF WAR
- 3. POWER OF MONEY
- 4. POWER OF JUDICIARY
- 5. POWER OF TREATY AND APPOINTMENT
- 6. POWER OF EXECUTIVE
- 7. POWER OF PARDON
- 8. THE CHENEY BRANCH
- II. - CONGRESSIONAL COLLAPSE
- 9. VOLUNTARY IMPOTENCE
- 10. WE WON'T IMPEACH YOU NO MATTER WHAT
- 11. OVERLOOKING OVERSIGHT
- 12. EMBARRASSING EXCUSES
- III. - UNDOING THE IMPERIAL PRESIDENCY
- 13. A WORLD WITHOUT EMPIRE
- 14. DETERRING REPETITION
- 15. AMERICAN MILITARISM AROUND THE WORLD
- 16. RESPECTING INTERNATIONAL TREATIES
- 17. SPARE CHANGE FOR REAL CHANGE
- IV. - FORMING A MORE PERFECT UNION
- 18. RIGHTS WE'VE HAD
- 19. RIGHTS WE NEED
- 1. The Right to Vote
- 2. Right to Expanded Magna Carta Protections
- 3. Equal Rights for All
- 4. Environmental Rights
- 5. Right to Education, Housing, and Health Care
- 6. Worker Rights
- 7. Right to Basic Welfare
- 8. Right to Be a Conscientious Objector
- 9. Freedom of the Press, and Freedom from War Lies
- 10. Right to Know Your Rights
- 20. CHANGES WE CAN MAKE
- 21. SPREADING DEMOCRACY TO WASHINGTON, DC
- 1. Clean Campaign Financing
- 2. Reduced Power for Parties
- 3. Limited Election Seasons
- 4. No More Electoral College
- 5. A Bigger House, No More Senate
- 6. No to IRV, Proportional Representation, and Term Limits
- 7. Limiting the Power of Supreme Court Justices
- 8. Balancing the Budget
- 9. Legislating by Initiative
- 10. Additional Ideas
- V. - CITIZEN POWER
- 22. THINKING
- 23. THE TROUBLE WITH THE MEDIA
- 24. VOTING
- 25. TAKING ACTION
- To Do List
- NOTES
- Acknowledgements
- INDEX
- About the Author
- About Seven Stories Press
- Copyright Page
