A Roadmap to Understanding the United States Constitution: Your United States Constitutional Rights
About this audiobook
In the United States, we are a democracy governed by a constitution that establishes the rights of citizens against the potential for governmental overreach. The key to Democracy is sunlight and more people understanding their constitutional rights, as to who is protected and what rights are supposed to be protected. Enlightenment provides the nontangible power of the mind to influence others with facts rather than just passing on fear, as fear is the main weapon of autocrats and dictators. This publication was developed to teach, change, or reinforce views of how the Constitution is designed to protect the rights of the people against an overzealous government. Hopefully, changed minds through intelligent dialogue may equate to changed votes as people learn to vote in their own best interest and recognize misinformation and hostile dialogue that divides workers and families, with no virtuous benefits bestowed on either side of the political spectrum. The most important constitutional concepts to understand and appreciate include the first three Articles, as they define the powers of what are supposed to be the three equal branches of government, the Congress, the Executive, and the Judiciary; the Bill of Rights, especially the First, Second, Forth, Fifth, Sixth, Eighth, Nineth, and Tenth Amendments; and the Fourteenth Amendment, as it defines Equal Protection, Due Process, Privileges or Immunities, Citizenship, and how the Amendment empowers the Bill of Rights through the doctrine of Selective Incorporation. These provisions of the Constitution are key to understanding the fundamentals of the United States' Constitutional rights.
About the author
I studied business sciences at San Francisco and Virginia Commonwealth Universities and received my Juris Doctor degree from Southern California Institute of Law in 1991. I spent much of my career as a newspaper business and legal editor, and I use that discipline to explain complex business and legal matters in simplified terms. Law is a difficult study as you are forced to think in the abstract as opposed to black and white facts and demonstrable evidence. In the study of law, using the Socratic method, you learn to think on your feet and speak extemporaneously ad infinitum on just about any doctrine of law. My objective is to explain legal principles so that most people can understand them and use that knowledge to make money.
My name is Sebastian Buroughs Windsor III. In 1976, I earned a bachelor's degree in business sciences from the University of San Francisco and a Master's in Business Administration in 1980 from Virginia Commonwealth University. I earned my Juris Doctor degree from the University of Southern California in 1984 and my LLM in 2016. I began my legal career as a law clerk to Federal Circuit Court Judge Harold Strokes; from there I became a newspaper business and constitutional legal editor with the San Francisco Chronicle, and later, as the newspaper business began a decline in readership, I began working abroad as a foreign business and engineering legal correspondent for Osaka University. Some of my greatest successes in writing involved explaining complex legal/business engineering surveys to non-engineers or lawyers. I feel my best talent is to explain complex matters in simplified terms. The study of Law is difficult enough without using a vocabulary that requires a dictionary to figure out. In the study of law, you are forced to think in the abstract, as opposed to everything being either black or white. It also requires thinking in a structured manner on the one hand, but requires creative thinking at the same time. In the study of law, using the Socratic method, you learn to think on your feet and speak extemporaneously ad infinitum on just about any doctrine of law. My objective, since the Socratic method is not available, is to explain legal principles so that most people can understand them, and for you to use that knowledge to go out and further your career. These essays were edited from information provided by Wikipedia.
Wikipedia provides free public domain access to practically all subjects, and is copyrighted, primarily under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License (CC BY-SA) and the GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL). The information in these essays is basically generic information all law students would typically be required to have a working knowlefdge.
