The Original Meaning of the Fourteenth Amendment: Its Letter and Spirit 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).

The Original Meaning of the Fourteenth Amendment: Its Letter and Spirit pdf por Randy Barnett

A renowned constitutional scholar and a rising star provide a balanced and definitive analysis of the origins and original meaning of the Fourteenth Amendment. Adopted in 1868, the Fourteenth Amendment profoundly changed the Constitution, giving the federal judiciary and Congress new powers to protect the fundamental rights of individuals from being violated by the states. Yet, according to Randy Barnett and Evan Bernick, the Supreme Court has long misunderstood or ignored the original meaning of the amendment's key clauses, covering the privileges and immunities of citizenship, due process of law, and the equal protection of the laws. Barnett and Bernick contend that the Fourteenth Amendment was the culmination of decades of debates about the meaning of the antebellum Constitution. Antislavery advocates advanced arguments informed by natural rights, the Declaration of Independence, and the common law. They also utilized what is today called public-meaning originalism. Although their arguments lost in the courts, the Republican Party was formed to advance an antislavery political agenda, eventually bringing about abolition. Then, when abolition alone proved insufficient to thwart Southern repression and provide for civil equality, the Fourteenth Amendment was enacted. It went beyond abolition to enshrine in the Constitution the concept of Republican citizenship and granted Congress power to protect fundamental rights and ensure equality before the law. Finally, Congress used its powers to pass Reconstruction-era civil rights laws that tell us much about the original scope of the amendment. With evenhanded attention to primary sources, The Original Meaning of the Fourteenth Amendment shows how the principles of the Declaration eventually came to modify the Constitution and proposes workable doctrines for implementing the key provisions of Section 1 of the Fourteenth Amendment.