Down By Law: comes the Revolution and Rebirth of a More Perfect Union (The Down By Law Project)

The revolution is penned. No need to take up arms. We can do this without bloodshed, without disrupting the economy — a smooth transition, at least in theory. Not to say there would be no turbulence, but nothing like what it could be. And not to say the system is broken, because it is not. It is working by design, the way it was built. The time to rebuild is now. There are two major pieces of proposed legislation that do exactly that, with the Second Bill of Rights setting the foundation for a new structure.

It is a complete, ready-to-file federal bill: The UnAlienable (Constitutional) Rights Act , twenty-four Titles of real statutory language that ends cash bail and plea bargaining, abolishes qualified immunity and secret grand juries, guarantees a trial in twenty-one days, screens police for temperament and pays them like the job matters, bans profit from incarceration, and returns a person's record and vote once a sentence is served. Alongside it stands The Second Bill of Rights , fifteen Articles naming what a free people is owed. So why read it if you will never write a law? Because it will not be a legislator standing in that courtroom. It will be you, or your son, or the woman who cuts your hair. Because none of this becomes law unless ordinary people demand it, and you cannot demand what you cannot describe. Because every page is written to be understood. No law degree. No Latin. A plain-English companion walks you through the Act one Title at a time, in the language you actually speak. And because the hardest arguments against it are printed inside the book, not hidden from you. Forty-nine hostile criticisms, quoted in full and answered without flinching.

Inside: The UnAlienable (Constitutional) Rights Act, all twenty-four Titles What's In This Bill, a plain-English guide to every Title Answering the Critics, forty-nine objections met head on The Second Bill of Rights, fifteen Articles, with its own plain-English guide Appendices stress-testing the hardest rules against the cases most likely to break them This book does not ask you to storm anything. There are no barricades in it, no smoke, no romance about violence. The revolution it proposes is almost embarrassingly quiet: ratify fifteen Articles, sign one Act into law, and the country finally means what it said in 1776.