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.
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.
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.
Celestine sets current events against eight centuries of hard-won rights. Choose a year.
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.
Who governs when governments depend on private empires? An investigation of how public power passes into private hands.
One President does not mean one ruler. How the unitary executive grew into a machinery of presidential supremacy.
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.
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.