LAWYER IN THE SKYCELESTINE BREEZE
Celestine Breeze · Author

Rooted in truth. Reaching for the sky.

Books on power, politics, and human rights, written from a high perch: the long view of history, where the headlines of today take their true shape.

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A Republic, If You Can Keep It

The founders placed their trust in We the People. This short guide shows what that trust asks of every citizen.

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Usurped, the first book, opens a rapid release of three.

The Long View

Every headline has a history.

Celestine sets current events against eight centuries of hard-won rights. Choose a year.

The Books

Power, traced link by link.

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Usurped
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Book one · Coming soon

Usurped

How judges, and then presidents, came to hold an immunity the people never granted, traced from an 1869 case brought by a disbarred lawyer to Trump v. United States.

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The Privatization of Power
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Book two · Rapid release

The Privatization of Power

Who governs when governments depend on private empires? An investigation of how public power passes into private hands.

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The King They Built
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Book three · Rapid release

The King They Built

One President does not mean one ruler. How the unitary executive grew into a machinery of presidential supremacy.

In the works
  • Borrowed Halos
  • Fear Opens the Door
  • Floodgate Fallacy
  • No One Is Free Until She Is
  • The Asset That Never Had to Be Recruited
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The founders trusted We the People. Here is how to live up to that trust.

  • Why complacency, more than any enemy, endangers a free republic
  • Participation as repair work: rolling up your sleeves on a solution
  • Learning from failure without the blame game, so we iterate and improve
  • Simple habits of diligence and vigilance for every citizen
Why the thunderbird

A guardian keeps watch from above.

In many Native traditions, the thunderbird protects the land, the waters, and the skies. Lawyer in the Sky takes the same post: high enough to see the whole terrain, close enough to name what is happening on the ground.

The roots hold to the truth. The boughs stretch toward the heavens.
About Celestine Breeze

Celestine Breeze brings decades of political insight to every page. Her books cite their sources, label opinion as opinion, and place each event in the arc of human history, drawing on founding principles and the inherent rights of every person.

  • Political scienceDegree, minor in history
  • LawJuris Doctor
  • Human rightsPhD, and work with the United Nations
  • PerspectiveClassical liberalism