Brevard resident James B. Plair schedules readings from new book, which hails constitution as timeless guide for modern society

Brevard resident James B. Plair will debut his new book A Study of the United States Constitution and the Federalist Papers with readings at Barnes & Noble (33 Town Square Boulevard in Asheville) on Saturday, Aug. 22, from 2-4 p.m. and at Blue Ridge Books (152 S. Main St. in Waynesville) on Saturday, Aug. 29, at 3 p.m.

Not only does the author aim to impart a deeper understanding of the 1787 Constitution and Federalist Papers upon readers, but he hopes to impress the value of and obligation to uphold the documents’ tenets in the modern age.

In the book’s introduction, Plair writes:

As I begin writing this series of essays on the state of these United States it occurs to me that no one may actually buy this book and read it. After all, who has ever heard of Jim Plair? Why would anyone want to read my thoughts on what I believe to be wrong with the way our Nation has been misled since the turn of the 20th Century? Well, I hope there will be some good, God Fearing, Patriotic Americans who will read what I have to say.

 

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First, I will offer my thoughts on the very foundation of our Nation – the Constitution of the United States. I will do this using the Federalist Papers written in 1787 by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison and John Jay in New York City newspapers to explain what they and the other signers of the Constitution were giving to the American people. Without expressing my thoughts on this great document in Part I, you would be at a loss to understand some of my comments, as well as my opinions as written in Part II.

Next, and in no particular order of importance, I will discuss the following topics in Part II: Who and What We Are, Taxation and the Constitution, the Question of Health Care, Education for All, Welfare and Social Engineering, the Separation of Church and State, Freedom of Speech, Freedom of Assembly, the Right to Bear Arms, Term Limits and Campaign Reform, the Abortion Issue, Immigration and the English Language, and Foreign Policy.

Visit jamesbplair.com for more information on the author. The book is available in print or as a digital download.

More information from the author’s team:

WHEN: 2015-08-22 / 2pm-4pm / Barnes & Noble, 33 Town Square Blvd, Asheville, NC 28803

2015-08-29 / 3:00 pm / Blue Ridge Books, 152 S Main St, Waynesville, NC 28786

WHAT: Plair, a resident of Brevard, NC, will be available to sign copies of his book, A Study of the United States Constitution and the Federalist Papers

If it be asked, “What is the most sacred duty and the greatest source of our society in a republic?” The answer would be, “An inviolable respect for the constitution and laws—the first growing out of the last. A scared respect for the constitutional law is the vital principal, the sustaining being the energy of a free government” (Alexander Hamilton, essay in “The American Daily Advertiser,” August 28, 1794).

In his book, the author hopes to guide you through an understanding of what the 1787 Constitution means to us in the twenty-first century. The author is not a historian, not an attorney, and not a politician. He is a self-taught student of the Revolutionary War period, the thoughts and lives of the Founding Fathers, and in the Constitution of the United States. This learning process began in the early 1960s when he first discovered the amazing document that “We the People” through their delegates at the 1787 Constitutional Convention was ratified by the first thirteen original states.

Our first president under the new Constitution of 1787, George Washington, said it best in a letter written to the Boston Selectmen, July 28, 1795: “The Constitution is the guide which I never will abandon.”