{"product_id":"the-permission-society-how-the-ruling-class-turns-our-freedoms-into-privileges-and-what-we-can-do-about-it-hardcover","title":"The Permission Society: How the Ruling Class Turns Our Freedoms Into Privileges and What We Can Do about It - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eTimothy Sandefur\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThroughout history, kings and emperors have promised \"freedoms\" to their people. Yet these freedoms were really only permissions handed down from on high. The American Revolution inaugurated a new vision: people have basic rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, and \u003ci\u003egovernment\u003c\/i\u003e must ask permission from \u003ci\u003ethem.\u003c\/i\u003e Sadly, today's increasingly bureaucratic society is beginning to turn back the clock and to transform America into a nation where our freedoms--the right to speak freely, to earn a living, to own a gun, to use private property, even the right to take medicine to save one's own life--are again treated as privileges the government may grant or withhold at will. Timothy Sandefur examines the history of the distinction between rights and privileges that played such an important role in the American experiment, and how we can fight to retain our freedoms against the growing power of government. Illustrated with dozens of real-life examples--including many cases he litigated himself--Sandefur shows how treating freedoms as government-created privileges undermines our Constitution and betrays the basic principles of human dignity.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eTimothy Sandefur is Vice President for Litigation at the Goldwater Institute. Before joining Goldwater, he served 15 years as a litigator at the Pacific Legal Foundation, where he won important victories for economic liberty in several states. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eCornerstone of Liberty: Property Rights in 21st-Century America\u003c\/i\u003e (coauthored with Christina Sandefur, 2016), \u003ci\u003eThe Right to Earn a Living\u003c\/i\u003e (2010), and \u003ci\u003eThe Conscience of the Constitution\u003c\/i\u003e (2014), as well as dozens of scholarly articles on subjects ranging from eminent domain and economic liberty to antitrust, copyright, slavery and the Civil War, and political issues in Shakespeare, ancient Greek drama, and \u003ci\u003eStar Trek\u003c\/i\u003e. He is an Adjunct Scholar with the Cato Institute and a graduate of Hillsdale College and Chapman University School of Law.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 296\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.2 x 9.1 x 5.9 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 13, 2016\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51771044888864,"sku":"9781594038396","price":25.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/8ef54cd731b0eb4c9ee7e5caecf710b0.webp?v=1780382433","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/the-permission-society-how-the-ruling-class-turns-our-freedoms-into-privileges-and-what-we-can-do-about-it-hardcover","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}