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03823aam a2200445 i 4500 001 08D86EDA101B11EA8DA14E4D97128E48 003 SILO 005 20191126010151 008 190117s2019 cau b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2018050755 020 $a 1523097639 020 $a 9781523097630 035 $a (OCoLC)1042113290 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCO $d OCLCF $d UKMGB $d CLE $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a n-us--- 050 00 $a HC110.W4 $b P74 2019 084 $a LAW047000 $a POL023000 $a LAW047000 $2 bisacsh 100 1 $a Price, Ben G., $e author. 245 10 $a How wealth rules the world : $b saving our communities and freedoms from the dictatorship of property / $c Ben G. Price ; foreword by David C. Korten. 250 $a First edition. 264 1 $a Oakland, CA : $b Berrett-Koehler Publishers, $c [2019] 300 $a xvi, 244 pages ; $c 22 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 520 $a "Ben Price reveals that our Constitution and legal system were intentionally designed to give more rights to the wealthy propertied class than the rest of us and exposes how this hamstrings our ability to effectively address a host of pressing social and environmental problems--and what we can do about it. Many of today's most serious issues--homelessness, gun violence, fracking, prison privatization, predatory lending, and many more--resist resolution because the "rights of property" undermine the rights of people. Issues that undeniably affect whole communities are determined by the courts to relate primarily to property, contracts, and corporations and are removed from the public sphere and immunized from public governance. There's a reason for this. Ben Price tells the story of how the Federalists--the more conservative faction of the Founding Fathers--secretly drafted the Constitution as a counterrevolutionary document. It restored to the colonial 1 percent 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 "minority of the opulent" (in James Madison's phrase) use the Constitution to block local policies that compete with their interests. Price details often shocking examples of how the supposedly unalienable rights of individuals and communities are blithely disregarded. But he also describes how over 200 communities have drafted their own bills of rights that push back against the primacy of property and how we all can join this struggle to return America to what the revolutionary generation intended"-- $c Provided by publisher. 520 $a "Most Americans think of homeownership as the pathway to the middle class and the bedrock of American prosperity, but under the surface, the right to own private property is actually the system that most powerfully upholds inequality and an elite, untouchable upper class"-- $c Provided by publisher. 610 10 $a United States. $t Constitution. 630 07 $a Constitution (United States) $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01356075 650 0 $a Wealth $z United States. 650 0 $a Right of property $z United States. 650 7 $a POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / Political Advocacy. $2 bisacsh 650 7 $a POLITICAL SCIENCE / Economic Conditions. $2 bisacsh 650 7 $a LAW / Housing & Urban Development. $2 bisacsh 650 7 $a Right of property. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01097863 650 7 $a Wealth. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01172973 651 7 $a United States. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01204155 776 08 $i ebook version : $z 9781523097654 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20231017025421.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=08D86EDA101B11EA8DA14E4D97128E48Initiate Another SILO Locator Search