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    Dollar Default: How the Federal Reserve and the Government Betrayed Your Trust , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 227min
    President Richard Nixon's momentous decision to break the tie between the dollar and gold in August 1971 has become a legend in financial history. Nixon's action was the final step in a 38 year process that began with FDR's legislative initiatives. In 1933 FDR led the charge to end the right of the American people to own gold. Nixon's action went one step further. This step ended the right of foreign nations to exchange their dollars for gold, and broke a long-standing covenant. Through this measure the final connection between the dollar and gold ended. In Dollar Default, former Money Manager Bill Cross cuts through over three hundred years of propagandized faux history to voice a concise, balanced and opportune reminder that there was a profound reason the framers of the Constitution defined the dollar in terms of silver and gold. By and large Americans have forgotten if not been told of their ancestors first experiments with paper money. It was disastrous, so much so that the framers insisted on defining the dollar in terms of silver and gold in terms of weight and measure. Dollar Default tells us why. With a broad brush Bill Cross details the key moments in American financial history that have led us from paper money to sound money and back again to paper money. Written for the general reader who has a love of history Cross reveals the critical background information for a first step forward to greater understanding of money in America. With context being ever so important Cross takes us back to antiquity, brings us forward to early American history and then carries us up to the present day. After reading Dollar Default you will have a solid grasp of the basics of American financial history, and why gold and silver were important in the founding of America. Dollar Default will change forever the way you view the paper money in your wallet, and connect you again with your heritage. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Bill Cross. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/017927/bk_acx0_017927_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Corruption in America: From Benjamin Franklin's Snuff Box to Citizens United , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 576min
    For two centuries, the Framers' ideas about political corruption flourished in the courts, even in the absence of clear rules governing voters, civil officers, and elected officials. In the 1970s, the U.S. Supreme Court began to narrow the definition of corruption, and the meaning has since changed dramatically. No case makes that clearer than Citizens United. In 2010, one of the most consequential Court decisions in American political history gave wealthy corporations the right to spend unlimited money to influence elections. Justice Anthony Kennedy's majority opinion treated corruption as nothing more than explicit bribery. With unlimited spending transforming American politics for the worse, Citizens United was not just bad law but bad history. Corruption in America clearly shows that if the American experiment in self-government is to have a future, then we must revive the traditional meaning of corruption and embrace an old ideal. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Jo Anna Perrin. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/tant/004365/bk_tant_004365_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    What is the Constitution? , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 67min
    We the people at Who HQ bring readers the full story - arguments and all - of how the US Constitution came into being.   Signed on September 17, 1787 - four years after the American War for Independence - the Constitution laid out the supreme law of the United States of America. Today it's easy for us to take this blueprint of our government for granted. But the Framers - 55 men from almost all of the original 13 states - argued fiercely for many months over what ended up being only a four-page document. Here is a fascinating behind-the-scenes look at the hotly fought issues - those between Northern and Southern States; big states and little ones - and the key players such as James Madison, Alexander Hamilton, and George Washington, who suffered through countless revisions to make the Constitution happen. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Kathleen McInerney. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/lili/003211/bk_lili_003211_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Einordnung von SystemC in den Design-/Verifikationsablauf
    Einordnung von SystemC in den Design-/Verifikationsablauf ab 49 € als Taschenbuch: SystemC Einführung am Beispiel eins E1-Framers und der Vergleich zu VHDL. Aus dem Bereich: Bücher, Wissenschaft, Technik,
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    Soroush's political theory in line with the modern tradition
    Soroush's political theory in line with the modern tradition ab 39.99 € als Taschenbuch: Modern tradition from Locke to the framers of the American constitution. Aus dem Bereich: Bücher, Wissenschaft, Politikwissenschaft,
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    The Address Of Abraham Lincoln
    The Address Of Abraham Lincoln ab 18.49 € als Taschenbuch: In Indication Of The Policy Of The Framers Of The Constitution And The Principles Of The Republican Party (1865). Aus dem Bereich: Bücher, Taschenbücher, Romane & Erzählungen,
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    History of the Origin Formation and Adoption of the Constitution of the United States
    History of the Origin Formation and Adoption of the Constitution of the United States ab 35.9 € als Taschenbuch: with Notices of Its Principal Framers - Volume 1. Aus dem Bereich: Bücher, Wissenschaft, Geschichte,
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    The Hidden History of Guns and the Second Amendment: The Thom Hartmann Hidden History Series , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 244min
    Thom Hartmann, the most popular progressive radio host in America and a New York Times best-selling author, looks at the real history of guns in America and what we can do to limit both their lethal impact and the power of the gun lobby.Taking his typically in-depth, historically-informed view, Thom Hartmann examines the brutal role guns have played in American history, from the genocide of the Native Americans to the enforcement of slavery (Slave Patrols are in fact the Second Amendment’s “well-regulated militias”) and the racist post-Civil War social order. He shows how the NRA and conservative Supreme Court justices used specious logic to invent a virtually unlimited individual right to own guns, which has enabled the ever-growing number of mass shootings in the United States. But Hartmann also identifies a handful of powerful, commonsense solutions that would break the power of the gun lobby and restore the understanding of the Second Amendment that the Framers of the Constitution intended. This is the kind of brief, brilliant analysis for which Hartmann is justly renowned. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Scott Brick. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/154751/bk_acx0_154751_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Power and Constraint: The Accountable Presidency After 9/11 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 570min
    The surprising truth behind Barack Obama's decision to continue many of his predecessor's counterterrorism policies… Conventional wisdom holds that 9/11 sounded the death knell for presidential accountability. In fact, the opposite is true. The novel powers that our post-9/11 commanders in chief assumed - endless detentions, military commissions, state secrets, broad surveillance, and more - are the culmination of a two-century expansion of presidential authority. But these new powers have been met with thousands of barely visible legal and political constraints - enforced by congressional committees, government lawyers, courts, and the media - that have transformed our unprecedentedly powerful presidency into one that is also unprecedentedly accountable. These constraints are the key to understanding why Obama continued the Bush counterterrorism program, and in this light, the events of the last decade should be seen as a victory, not a failure, of American constitutional government. We have actually preserved the framers’ original idea of a balanced constitution, despite the vast increase in presidential power made necessary by this age of permanent emergency. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Mark Whitten. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/012340/bk_adbl_012340_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Fault Lines in the Constitution: The Framers, Their Fights, and the Flaws That Affect Us Today , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 386min
    Many of the political issues we struggle with today have their roots in the US Constitution. Husband-and-wife team Cynthia and Sanford Levinson take listeners back to the creation of this historic document and discuss how contemporary problems were first introduced - then they offer possible solutions. Think Electoral College, gerrymandering, even the Senate. Many of us take these features in our system for granted. But they came about through haggling in an overheated room in 1787, and we're still experiencing the ramifications. Each chapter in this timely and thoughtful exploration of the Constitution's creation begins with a story - all but one of them true - that connects directly back to a section of the document that forms the basis of our society and government. From the award-winning team - Cynthia Levinson, children's book author, and Sanford Levinson, constitutional law scholar - Fault Lines in the Constitution will encourage exploration and discussion from young and old listeners alike. Read by Mark Bramhall, Arthur Morey, Kimberly Farr, Erin Spencer, and Adenrele Ojo. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Mark Bramhall, Arthur Morey, Kimberly Farr, Erin Spencer, Adenrele Ojo. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/lili/002331/bk_lili_002331_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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