Restoring the Lost Constitution pdf

Randy E. Barnett es el Profesor Carmack Waterhouse de Teoría Jurídica en el Centro de Derecho de la Universidad de Georgetown, donde enseña derecho constitucional y contratos. Después de graduarse de la Universidad Northwestern y de la Facultad de Derecho de Harvard, procesó muchos casos de delitos graves como fiscal en la Oficina del Fiscal del Estado del Condado de Cook en Chicago. Ha sido profesor invitado en Northwestern y Harvard Law School. En 2008, recibió una beca Guggenheim en Estudios Constitucionales. En 2004, Barnett compareció ante la Corte Suprema de los Estados Unidos para argumentar el caso de cannabis medicinal de Gonzalez v. Raich. Da conferencias a nivel internacional y ha aparecido en programas de radio y televisión como CBS Evening News, PBS NewsHour, Talk of the Nation (NPR), Hannity & Colmes (FOX) y Ricki Lake Show. Pronunció las conferencias Kobe 2000 sobre jurisprudencia en la Universidad de Tokio y en la Universidad Doshisha de Kioto. La beca de Barnett incluye más de 80 artículos y reseñas, así como 8 libros, incluidos Restauración de la Constitución Perdida: La Presunción de Libertad (Princeton, 2004), Derecho Constitucional: Casos en Contexto (Aspen 2008), Casos de Contratos y Doctrina (Aspen, 4th ed. 2008), y Nuestra Constitución Republicana: Asegurando la Libertad y la Soberanía de Nosotros, el Pueblo (Broadside Books, 2016).

Restoring the Lost Constitution pdf por Randy Barnett

The U.S. Constitution found in school textbooks and under glass in Washington is not the one enforced today by the Supreme Court. In Restoring the Lost Constitution, Randy Barnett argues that since the nation's founding, but especially since the 1930s, the courts have been cutting holes in the original Constitution and its amendments to eliminate the parts that protect liberty from the power of government. From the Commerce Clause, to the Necessary and Proper Clause, to the Ninth and Tenth Amendments, to the Privileges or Immunities Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment, the Supreme Court has rendered each of these provisions toothless. In the process, the written Constitution has been lost.Barnett establishes the original meaning of these lost clauses and offers a practical way to restore them to their central role in constraining government: adopting a "presumption of liberty" to give the benefit of the doubt to citizens when laws restrict their rightful exercises of liberty. He also provides a new, realistic and philosophically rigorous theory of constitutional legitimacy that justifies both interpreting the Constitution according to its original meaning and, where that meaning is vague or open-ended, construing it so as to better protect the rights retained by the people.As clearly argued as it is insightful and provocative, Restoring the Lost Constitution forcefully disputes the conventional wisdom, posing a powerful challenge to which others must now respond.