Restoring the Lost Constitution pdf

Randy E. Barnett 是乔治城大学法律中心的 Carmack Waterhouse 法律理论教授，教授宪法和合同。从西北大学和哈佛法学院毕业后，他在芝加哥库克县州检察官办公室担任检察官，审理了许多重罪案件。他曾是西北大学和哈佛法学院的客座教授。 2008年，他获得了古根海姆宪法研究奖学金。 2004 年，巴内特在美国最高法院出庭，就 Gonzalez 诉 Raich 的医用大麻案进行辩论。他在国际上演讲，并出现在广播和电视节目中，例如 CBS 晚间新闻、PBS NewsHour、国家谈话 (NPR)、Hannity & Colmes (FOX) 和 Ricki Lake Show。他在东京大学和京都同志社大学举办了神户 2000 年法学讲座。 Barnett 的奖学金包括 80 多篇文章和评论以及 8 本书，包括恢复失落的宪法：自由推定（普林斯顿，2004 年）、宪法：上下文案例（Aspen 2008）、合同案例和学说（Aspen，4th ed. 2008)，以及我们的共和党宪法：保障我们人民的自由和主权（Broadside Books，2016 年）。

Restoring the Lost Constitution pdf 兰迪·巴尼特

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.