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With Justice for Some is dedicated to victims of hate crimes throughout America’s history, the Good Samaritans who came to their defense, and those among us who have overcome mutual distrust to embrace each other -- “We the People of the United States” seeking to form “a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity.”

This book is also dedicated to all those who risked their lives and who continue to put their lives on the line to preserve our American experiment in democracy from all enemies foreign and domestic. Pakistani-American lawyer Khzir Khan challenged all of us native-born Americans on our knowledge of the U.S. Constitution at the Democratic Presidential Convention in Philadelphia in July 2016. He spoke with passion about his adopted country after a short film honored the life of his heroic son Army Captain Humayun Khan, who posthumously received a Purple Heart and Bronze Star for making the ultimate sacrifice in Iraq in 2004. How many of us could assure Humayun Khan’s grieving Gold Star parents today that we have even read the Preamble to our Constitution, to say nothing of its entire contents, including the Bill of Rights?