Limited Resistance--It's Time.

Dear NR Friend,

I'm sharing another important book heads-up, this one Charles Murray's forthcoming (May 12th publication date) By the People: Rebuilding Liberty Without Permission.

First: If you judge books by their covers, you're going to love this one.

Isn't that beautiful?

Second: If you judge a book by its content, you're going to love it. And be excited by it.

Charles wants to tell you all about this -- in pictures! You've got to check out his Field Guide to Civil Disobedience, where you'll get more than a hint as to what this book, this project, is all about. In his own words: "I am not proposing revolution but I am proposing a declaration of limited resistance to the existing government."

Sign me up!

But get me the field guide first, which looks like the role By the People: Rebuilding Liberty Without Permission will be playing for fed-up Americans. For lovers of inalienable rights. For those pushed one time too many by the insatiable leviathan which goes by the names of Federal, State, and Local.

For you.

Let them earn their salaries: Here's how the wise marketeers of Crown Forum describe By the People: Rebuilding Liberty Without Permission:

American freedom is being gutted. Whether we are trying to run a business, practice a vocation, raise our families, cooperate with our neighbors, or follow our religious beliefs, we run afoul of the government -- not because we are doing anything wrong but because the government has decided it knows better. When we object, that government can and does tell us, "Try to fight this, and we'll ruin you."

In this provocative book, acclaimed social scientist and bestselling author Charles Murray shows us why we can no longer hope to roll back the power of the federal government through the normal political process. The Constitution is broken in ways that cannot be fixed even by a sympathetic Supreme Court. Our legal system is increasingly lawless, unmoored from traditional ideas of "the rule of law." The legislative process has become systemically corrupt, no matter which party is in control.

But there's good news beyond the Beltway. Technology is siphoning power from sclerotic government agencies and putting it in the hands of individuals and communities. The rediversification of American culture is making local freedom attractive to liberals as well as conservatives. People across the political spectrum are increasingly alienated from a regulatory state that nakedly serves its own interests rather than those of ordinary Americans.

The even better news is that federal government has a fatal weakness: It can get away with its thousands of laws and regulations only if the overwhelming majority of Americans voluntarily comply with them. Murray describes how civil disobedience backstopped by legal defense funds can make large portions of the 180,000-page Federal Code of Regulations unenforceable, through a targeted program that identifies regulations that arbitrarily and capriciously tell us what to do. Americans have it within their power to make the federal government an insurable hazard like hurricanes and floods, leaving us once again free to live our lives as we see fit.

By the People has a hopeful message. Rebuilding our traditional freedoms does not require electing a right-thinking Congress or president, nor does it require five right-thinking justices on the Supreme Court. It can be done by we the people, using America's unique civil society to put government back in its proper box.

Admit it: This is a book you want.

Want a little more nudging? Let me give you some recommendations for By the People from three wise men, which should make you want it all the more:

By the People is a study in contradictions. It is simultaneously depressing and inspiring, technical and profound, infuriating and charming, but always compelling. Charles Murray plays the role of a liberty-loving Lenin asking the question, 'What is to be done?' To this end, he offers a practical guide to repairing our broken constitutional order. It is that rarest of books: a populist manifesto grounded in fact and logic.–Jonah Goldberg

A road map to recapture true American exceptionalism. With passion, brilliance, and a keen sense of the radical essence of what America means, Murray dismisses what passes for political debate today and offers an audacious plan to restore the liberty our founders bequeathed to us.–Edward Crane, president emeritus, Cato Institute

Liberty without permission? Selective civil disobedience? I'm in! At first I balked, but Murray makes a convincing case that a Madison Fund might scrape away the sclerosis of the suffocating state. As usual, his original arguments expand the way I think. When law is so complex that it's indistinguishable from lawlessness, when the tax code is 4 million words long, something like systematic disobedience is badly needed.–John Stossel

Pre-order your copy right now, right here.

See you at the barricades!

Best,

Jack Fowler
Publisher
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