Picture 1 of 1
Jane Anne Morris Gaveling Down the Rabble (Paperback) (UK IMPORT)
Another great item from Rarewaves | Free delivery!
Condition:
4 available
Postage:
Located in: GU14 0GT, United Kingdom
Delivery:
Estimated between Mon, 1 Jul and Thu, 11 Jul to 43230
Returns:
Coverage:
Read item description or contact seller for details. See all detailsSee all details on coverage
(Not eligible for eBay purchase protection programmes)
Seller information
Registered as a Business Seller
Seller assumes all responsibility for this listing.
eBay item number:364685654298
Item specifics
- Condition
- Brand New: A new, unread, unused book in perfect condition with no missing or damaged pages. See all condition definitionsopens in a new window or tab
- Book Title
- Gaveling Down the Rabble
- Title
- Gaveling Down the Rabble
- EAN
- 9781891843396
- ISBN
- 9781891843396
- Release Date
- 06/30/2008
- Release Year
- 2008
- Subtitle
- How "Free Trade" Is Stealing Our Democracy
- ISBN-10
- 1891843397
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- US
- Genre
- Business & Finance
- Publication Year
- 2008
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Subject Area
- Law, Business & Economics, Political Science
- Publication Name
- Gaveling Down the Rabble : How &Quot;Free Trade&Quot; Is Stealing Our Democracy
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Incorporated
- Subject
- Commercial / General, International / Economics, International Relations / Trade & Tariffs, Corporate Governance, Commerce, Commercial Policy, Government & Business
- Number of Pages
- 196 Pages
About this product
Product Information
In Gaveling Down the Rabble, author/activist Jane Anne Morris explores a century and a half of efforts by corporations and the courts to undermine local democracy in the United States by using a "free trade" model. It was that very nineteenth-century model that was later adopted globally by corporations to subvert local attempts at protecting the environment and citizen and worker health.Gaveling Down the Rabble is essential reading for understanding the background of the current struggle for U.S. democracy -- local, state and national -- against growing corporate power and how we can challenge it.Since the late 1800s the U.S. Supreme Court has been cutting our local, state and national democracy off at the knees -- in the name of "free trade" -- by usurping the power to make public policy from our elected representatives in the Congress and the state legislatures and by giving power to corporations over citizens.By erecting a "free trade" zone in the U.S., corporations and their champions on the Supreme Court have seen to it that "we do not have a chance of building a democracy." Morris looks at what substantive democracy should look like, and how far from that ideal the Supreme Court -- without consent of Congress -- has moved us.As presidential candidates are deploring the loss of American jobs from the global trade agreements that were supposed to bring us new prosperity, a public debate is finally opening about the consequences of the last decade of global corporatization. In contrast, we do not debate the internal "free trade" at home that is hidden from view.This urgent new book reveals one hidden source of the corporate power that has been steadily crushing our self governance: namely, the U.S. Commerce Clause in the U.S. Constitution, implemented by nine unelected Presidential appointees.Most significant: Morris shows how environmental, labor and civil-rights cases using Commerce Clause arguments, rather than Constitutional Rights arguments, have distorted citizens' rights by defining them in terms of their value to commerce. But just as alarming is how tenuous the major legislation protecting our democratic rights becomes when based on the Commerce Clause and not grounded in legal rights.Morris also shows how the courts have ruled time and again against local attempts to control large corporations. From efforts to protect public health in the face of slaughter house abuses in the nineteenth century to attempts at regulating wages and hours of migrant workers in the present, the Commerce Clause has been used in favor of corporate interests.Gaveling Down the Rabble describes the development of this national "free trade" zone through Supreme Court decisions over many decades The idea that we live in a "free trade" zone is a commonplace among legal historians. "Supreme Court Justices have been intoning it like a mantra for over a century," Morris writes.She makes the case that the U.S. Supreme Court has subverted our representative government through narrow rulings based on the U.S. Constitution's Commerce Clause -- creating a hidden domestic "free trade" zone as undemocratic as the global "free trade" zone. Using this clause, the Court has incrementally built a large -- and growing -- body of law favoring large corporate interests over the rights of states, municipalities, labor, minorities and the environment.She finds it astonishing that "a fact so present in legal discourse" is so absent from public debate. This book is her attempt to stimulate that debate.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Incorporated
ISBN-10
1891843397
ISBN-13
9781891843396
eBay Product ID (ePID)
66042333
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
196 Pages
Language
English
Publication Name
Gaveling Down the Rabble : How &Quot;Free Trade&Quot; Is Stealing Our Democracy
Publication Year
2008
Subject
Commercial / General, International / Economics, International Relations / Trade & Tariffs, Corporate Governance, Commerce, Commercial Policy, Government & Business
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Law, Business & Economics, Political Science
Format
Trade Paperback
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
College Audience
LCCN
2007-035128
Grade from
College Freshman
Grade to
College Graduate Student
Lc Classification Number
Kf4606.M67 2008
Copyright Date
2008
Item description from the seller
Business seller information
Value Added Tax Number:
- GB 864154811
Seller assumes all responsibility for this listing.
eBay item number:364685654298
Postage and handling
Item location:
GU14 0GT, United Kingdom
Post to:
Worldwide
Excludes:
Afghanistan, Australia, Austria, Belarus, Canada, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Libya, Nauru, Netherlands, Russian Federation, Somalia, Spain, Switzerland, Ukraine, United Kingdom, Yemen
| Postage and handling | Each additional item | To | Service | Delivery*See Delivery notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Free postage | Free | United States | Standard Shipping from outside US | Estimated between Mon, 1 Jul and Thu, 11 Jul to 43230 |
| Handling time |
|---|
| Will usually post within 5 business days of receiving cleared payment. |
| Taxes |
|---|
| Taxes may be applicable at checkout. Learn moreLearn more about paying tax on eBay purchases. |
Sales Tax for an item #364685654298
Sales Tax for an item #364685654298
Seller collects sales tax for items shipped to the following states:
| State | Sales Tax Rate |
|---|
Return policy
| After receiving the item, contact seller within | Refund will be given as |
|---|---|
| 30 days | Money Back, Replacement |
The buyer is responsible for return postage costs.
Seller feedback (659,648)
d***2 (270)- Feedback left by buyer.
Past month
Verified purchase
Steelbook is nice and great shape. And a great movie
u***c (489)- Feedback left by buyer.
Past month
Verified purchase
Supper Fast Shipping From The Other Side Of The Atlantic. Great game. AAA+ Seller !!!
b***r (687)- Feedback left by buyer.
Past month
Verified purchase
This DVD is in brand new condition (factory wrapped). There are four episodes to this story, about finding those responsible for the murder of an expedition team. The picture quality is fantastic. The special features are also included on this disc. I especially enjoyed the documentary for the making of Planet of Evil, which includes Tom Baker and Elisabeth Sladen. This UK version is much more affordable than the Region 1 (USA and Canada) version. Highly Recommended Seller!!!