The Second Civil War- The Complete History

by Adam Yoshida

  As I have said several times in the years since, I began the book when it appeared to me that it was becoming increasingly likely that Mr. Obama would be re-elected. Since that time, he has fulfilled all of my worst expectations. For example, in the Second Civil War, the fictional President Bryan issues an immigration executive order not far removed from that recently issued by Mr. Obama as an emergency war measure. The effort of the executive to assume the dispensing power, a power that has been denied to it in Anglo-American constitutional government since the Glorious Revolution, is a deeply concerning one. One wonders how many of the other fictional Constitutional outrages contemplated in the pages of the Second Civil War might become realities should this Administration or one of its successors consider it to be in its political interests.

  Yet, at the same time, I should note - and perhaps explanations are bad art, but I feel like one is required here - that this work is emphatically not a call for violent revolt or anything of the sort. The problem with overturning or even “restoring” a Constitution by force is that, once the social contract is broken, it tends to invite further violations. If you want to gain a better appreciation for this principle, you should study the history of the final years of the Roman Republic. Robin Waterfield’s recent translation of Plutarch - also available on Amazon as “Roman Lives” - provides a pretty good sketch of this exact problem.

  That being said, I wish to end this work on a hopeful note. The only way that the Constitutional liberties of a people can be restored is from the bottom-up, not from the top-down. We have recently had much positive news on this front, as the final mid-term election of Mr. Obama’s career has resulted not only the election of the most-Republican Congress of my lifetime, but the most-Republican Congress since the arrival of Franklin Roosevelt on the scene. Not only that, but Republican gains in the states have been impressive and deep. Perhaps this should be taken a a sign of an awakening by some part of the American people to the dangers that the deeply-illiberal nature of modern “progressive” ideology poses to individual freedom.

  For my own part, I will be along with another book soon. I actually wrote half of a science fiction novel, tentatively entitled “Civis Martis Sum” before I decided, based upon correspondence received via my Facebook page, to return to and complete the “Second Civil War” series.

  Adam Yoshida

  Vancouver, British Columbia

  December 7, 2014

  About the Author

  Adam Teiichi Yoshida is a columnist and blogger whose work has been published in multiple forums, including the National Post, Washington Times, Insight Magazine, and The American Thinker. He is the author of multiple novels.