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Restoring the Lost Constitution: The Presumption of Liberty - Updated Edition
Randy E. Barnett
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Description for Restoring the Lost Constitution: The Presumption of Liberty - Updated Edition
Paperback. 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. Num Pages: 448 pages, 1 table. BIC Classification: 1KBB; LND. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 234 x 155 x 28. Weight in Grams: 628.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
448
Condition
New
Number of Pages
448
Place of Publication
New Jersey, United States
ISBN
9780691159737
SKU
V9780691159737
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About Randy E. Barnett
Randy E. Barnett is the Carmack Waterhouse Professor of Legal Theory at the Georgetown University Law Center and was a Guggenheim Fellow in Constitutional Studies. He is the author of The Structure of Liberty: Justice and the Rule of Law.
Reviews for Restoring the Lost Constitution: The Presumption of Liberty - Updated Edition
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. It lights up a road back to limited government, albeit a steep road."
Willian H. Peterson, Washington Times "This book is terrific in demonstrating the natural rights background to our Constitution and demonstrating that ... Read more
provocative, documented, resolute, reasoned, readable
delightfully devoid of legalistic obtuseness. It lights up a road back to limited government, albeit a steep road."
Willian H. Peterson, Washington Times "This book is terrific in demonstrating the natural rights background to our Constitution and demonstrating that ... Read more