Book - Gaveling Down the Rabble

Gaveling Down the Rabble: How "Free Trade" is Stealing Our Democracy by Jane Anne Morris. Paperback Book. Apex Press. 2008. In Gaveling Down the Rabble, author/activist Jane Anne Morris explores a century and a half of efforts by corporations and the courts to undermine local democracy in the United States by using a free trade model. It was that very nineteenth-century model that was later adopted globally by corporations to subvert local attempts at protecting the environment and citizen and worker health. Gaveling Down the Rabble is essential reading for understanding the background of the current struggle for U.S. democracy local, state and national against growing corporate power and how we can challenge it. Since the late 1800s the U.S. Supreme Court has been cutting our local, state and national democracy off at the knees in the name of free trade by usurping the power to make public policy from our elected representatives in the Congress and the state legislatures a