re: What are your Top 5 books about American Politics?

This is a 2011 appearance by Justice Scalia in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee.
- He laments the fact that people are not reading The Federalist Papers. Says we have raised a generation of Americans not familiar with them.
- When he speaks to various audiences he asks them, 'why do you think America is such a free country?'. The response are usually a recitation of items in the Bill of Rights. He says that is crazy. It's a 'parchment guarantee'. He says that a centralization of power destroys a Bill of Rights, and that it's the structure of our government that produces freedom, alluding to Separation of Powers, independent judiciary, bicameral arrangement in Congress, etc. He says this structure has prevented the centralization of power.
- He says people complain about gridlock but that is precisely what the Founders were looking for.

One of the things our Founders feared the most was a coalition among different branches of government. And that is precisely what we now have. I wonder what Scalia would say about things today.