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[Randy E. Barnett] À Restoring the Lost Constitution: The Presumption of Liberty ☆ Download Online eBook or Kindle ePUB. Restoring the Lost Constitution: The Presumption 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 respo
| Title | : | Restoring the Lost Constitution: The Presumption of Liberty |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.75 (977 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0691115850 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 384 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-04-23 |
| Language | : | English |
Peterson, Washington Times"This book is terrific in demonstrating the natural rights background to our Constitution and demonstrating that all rights cannot be listed in the Constitution. It lights up a road back to limited government, albeit a steep road."--Willian H. An excellent work."--Ronald Kahn, Law and Politics Book Review. Winner of the 2005 Lysander Spooner Award for Advancing the Literature of Liberty, Laissez Faire Books"A hopeful work--provocative, documented, resolute, reasoned, readable--delightfully devoid of legalistic obtuseness
important book that should be read by judges James J. Lippard Randy Barnett has written a fascinating and well-argued book. The book is composed of four parts: "Constitutional Legitimacy," "Constitutional Method," "Constitutional Limits," and "Constitutional Powers." The first part takes seriously Lysander Spooner's arguments in "No Treason: The Constitution of No Authority" that the Constitution is not and cannot be binding on people who did not explicitly consent to it- the "we the people" in the preamble is a fiction. Barnett argues for a view that a Constitut. "Toward a jurisprudence of original meaning" according to John S. Ryan. What should we do with the Constitution? In this excellent work, Randy E. Barnett proposes a predominantly libertarian answer to that question. (I say 'predominantly' because Barnett is quite clear-eyed and honest in his recognition of the handful of nonlibertarian elements in the document.)Barnett initially addresses the question why we should consider ourselves bound by the Constitution at all, since the idea that it really speaks for every single one of 'the People' for all time is clearly a fiction. Michael Heath said Head & Shoulders above all other Constitutional Scholars. Having read most of the current batch of constitutional scholars, and while respectful of their opinions, I believe that none reach the level of Barnett's understanding of the Constitution and the importance his thesis is to all Americans if we want to protect our freedoms from those internally who would deny we even possess rights as individuals.Barnett starts off by providing a strong, though subjective, philospohical basis for the legitimacy of government power over citizens claiming they are truly
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.. Constitution found in school textbooks and under glass in Washington is not the one enforced today by the Supreme Court. In the process, the written Constitution has been lost.Barnett establishes the original meaning of these lost clauses and offers a pr
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