How Wealth Rules The World Ben G Price by Ben G. Price 9781523097630, 1523097639 instant download after payment.

Ben Price reveals the little-known fact that a group of the Founding Fathers attached legal rights to property, thereby turning those who own a lot of it into an American aristocracy. He shows how this has hamstrung our ability to address a host of social problems--and what we can do about it. Many of today's social and environmental problems--homelessness, gun violence, fracking, prison privatization, and many more--resist resolution because the "rights of property" undermine the rights of people. The law attaches the power to rule to pooled wealth, which is owned by a minority. This situation is crippling communities, harming people, and destroying our world. Ben Price tells the story of how the Federalists secretly drafted the Constitution as a counter-revolutionary document. It restored to the colonial 1% privileges overturned by the revolution, avoiding a popular backlash by bestowing rights on wealth itself, rather than creating a British-style personal aristocracy. These rights of property deprive the majority of their ability to self-govern and weaponize government in ways that let the opulent minority use corporations and the Constitution itself to block local policies that compete with their interests. These problems go far deeper than Citizens United or any other Supreme Court ruling; they are embedded in the very structure of our Constitution, law and government. But Price describes the community rights movement that is challenging the rights of property, and what we all can do to return America to what the revolutionary generation intended.