Restoring the Lost Constitution pdf

Randy E. Barnett è professore di teoria giuridica alla Carmack Waterhouse presso il Georgetown University Law Center, dove insegna diritto costituzionale e contrattualistica. Dopo la laurea presso la Northwestern University e la Harvard Law School, ha processato molti casi di reato come procuratore presso l'ufficio del procuratore dello stato della contea di Cook a Chicago. È stato visiting professor presso la Northwestern e la Harvard Law School. Nel 2008 ha ricevuto una borsa di studio Guggenheim in Studi costituzionali. Nel 2004, Barnett è comparso davanti alla Corte Suprema degli Stati Uniti per discutere il caso della cannabis medica di Gonzalez v. Raich. Tiene conferenze a livello internazionale ed è apparso in programmi radiofonici e televisivi come CBS Evening News, PBS NewsHour, Talk of the Nation (NPR), Hannity & Colmes (FOX) e Ricki Lake Show. Ha tenuto le lezioni Kobe 2000 in giurisprudenza presso l'Università di Tokyo e l'Università Doshisha di Kyoto. La borsa di studio di Barnett comprende più di 80 articoli e recensioni, nonché 8 libri, tra cui Restoring the Lost Constitution: The Presumption of Liberty (Princeton, 2004), Constitutional Law: Cases in Context (Aspen 2008), Contracts Cases and Doctrine (Aspen, 4th ed. 2008) e La nostra costituzione repubblicana: garantire la libertà e la sovranità di noi persone (Broadside Books, 2016).

Restoring the Lost Constitution pdf da 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.