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A Constitution For Turtle Island
What if we could rewrite the U.S. Constitution - but do it right this time? No three-fifths clause. No electoral college. No insider trading. No dark money.
This book is a love letter to an America that could have been.
What if the better angels of our nature had prevailed from the beginning? What if the rights of women, immigrants, the indigenous... hell, what if the rights of EVERYONE had been protected in no-nonsense, ironclad language? What if we put limits on the imperial presidency? Evened out the ridiculous disproportionate Senate?
Author Doug Reed, writing as Publius, takes a spirited and humorous journey through the Constitution and suggests real solutions for putting our country back on a sensible path again. This book is not about the current crisis - how we got into it, nor how we get out of it. This book is about planting a hopeful seed for the time after, when we have to rebuild our shattered and fractured country.
This book is a love letter to an America that could have been.
What if the better angels of our nature had prevailed from the beginning? What if the rights of women, immigrants, the indigenous... hell, what if the rights of EVERYONE had been protected in no-nonsense, ironclad language? What if we put limits on the imperial presidency? Evened out the ridiculous disproportionate Senate?
Author Doug Reed, writing as Publius, takes a spirited and humorous journey through the Constitution and suggests real solutions for putting our country back on a sensible path again. This book is not about the current crisis - how we got into it, nor how we get out of it. This book is about planting a hopeful seed for the time after, when we have to rebuild our shattered and fractured country.
90 pages, Paperback
Published September 8, 2025
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About the author
Doug Reed
2 books8 followersDOUG REED grew up in the far western suburbs of Richmond, Virginia. He received his BA in Theatre from Goshen College, where he set a school record for most chapels skipped.
Most of his so-called adult life has been spent in the Madison, Wisconsin, area where, in addition to raising a family, he was a playwright, improvisor, and actor. This life was rich and full of purpose. To support it, Doug spent years sitting in cubicles, watching clocks, fudging timesheets, and perfecting the Zen art of the Facebook status.
His most noted play, The Lamentable Tragedie of Scott Walker, sold out theatres around Madison for months. Other staged works include The Opiate of the Missus, Minglewood Blues, and Mask and Masculinity.
Half is his first novel.
Most of his so-called adult life has been spent in the Madison, Wisconsin, area where, in addition to raising a family, he was a playwright, improvisor, and actor. This life was rich and full of purpose. To support it, Doug spent years sitting in cubicles, watching clocks, fudging timesheets, and perfecting the Zen art of the Facebook status.
His most noted play, The Lamentable Tragedie of Scott Walker, sold out theatres around Madison for months. Other staged works include The Opiate of the Missus, Minglewood Blues, and Mask and Masculinity.
Half is his first novel.
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