"Many Americans in the early years of the Republic regarded the U.S. Constitution as a miracle. They didn't know how right they were: Over the next two hundred years, the nation chartered by that document brought about more human progress than was made in the previous five thousand. Today, however, that astonishing leap in progress is in danger of coming to a halt -- because the Constitution that inspired it has been “interpreted” out of existence by the Supreme Court. Now, in The 5000 Year Leap: A Miracle That Changed the World, W. Cleon Skousen revives respect and reverence for our nation's founding document by revealing the 28 "Principles of Freedom" that are embodied in it -- and that produced the dynamic "success formula" which proved such a sensational blessing to modern man."  From Human Events