Restoring the Lost Constitution pdf

Randy E. Barnett est titulaire de la chaire Carmack Waterhouse de théorie juridique au Georgetown University Law Center, où il enseigne le droit constitutionnel et les contrats. Après avoir obtenu son diplôme de la Northwestern University et de la Harvard Law School, il a jugé de nombreuses affaires criminelles en tant que procureur au bureau du procureur de l'État du comté de Cook à Chicago. Il a été professeur invité à la Northwestern et à la Harvard Law School. En 2008, il a reçu une bourse Guggenheim en études constitutionnelles. En 2004, Barnett a comparu devant la Cour suprême des États-Unis pour plaider l'affaire du cannabis médical Gonzalez c. Raich. Il donne des conférences à l'échelle internationale et est apparu dans des émissions de radio et de télévision telles que CBS Evening News, PBS NewsHour, Talk of the Nation (NPR), Hannity & Colmes (FOX) et le Ricki Lake Show. Il a donné les conférences Kobe 2000 en jurisprudence à l'Université de Tokyo et à l'Université Doshisha à Kyoto. La bourse de Barnett comprend plus de 80 articles et critiques ainsi que 8 livres, dont Restoring the Lost Constitution: The Presumption of Liberty (Princeton, 2004), Constitutional Law: Cases in Context (Aspen 2008), Contracts Cases and Doctrine (Aspen, 4th éd. 2008) et Notre Constitution républicaine : Sécuriser la liberté et la souveraineté de Nous, le peuple (Broadside Books, 2016).

Restoring the Lost Constitution pdf par 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.