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

The Original Meaning of the Fourteenth Amendment: Its Letter and Spirit pdf 兰迪·巴尼特

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.