Restoring the Lost Constitution [[electronic resource] ] : The Presumption of Liberty

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910345148403321
• Autore: Barnett Randy E
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Princeton, : Princeton University Press, 2009
• ISBN: 1-282-12942-2; 9786612129421; 1-4008-2584-9
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (385 p.)
• Disciplina: 342.73; 342.73/029
• Soggetti: Constitutional history -- United States; Constitutional law -- United States; Judicial review -- United States; United States. Supreme Court; Constitutional history - United States; Constitutional law - United States; Judicial review - United States; Law - U.S; Law, Politics & Government; Constitutional Law - U.S
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di contenuto: Contents; Preface; INTRODUCTION: Why Care What the Constitution Says?; PART I. Constitutional Legitimacy; CHAPTER ONE: The Fiction of "We the People": Is the Constitution Binding on Us?; CHAPTER TWO: Constitutional Legitimacy without Consent: Protecting the RightsRetained by the People; CHAPTER THREE:Natural Rights as Liberty Rights: Retained Rights, Privileges,or Immunities; PART II. Constitutional Method; CHAPTER FOUR: Constitutional Interpretation: An Originalism for Nonoriginalists; CHAPTER FIVE: Constitutional Construction: Supplementing Original Meaning; CHAPTER SIX: Judicial Review: The Meaning of the Judicial PowerPART ; III. Constitutional Limits; CHAPTER SEVEN: Judicial Review of Federal Laws: The Meaning of the Necessaryand Proper Clause; CHAPTER EIGHT: Judicial Review of State Laws: The Meaning of the Privilegesor Immunities Clause; CHAPTER NINE: The Mandate of the Ninth Amendment: Why FootnoteFour Is Wrong; CHAPTER TEN: The Presumption of Liberty: Protecting Rights withoutListing Them; PART IV. Constitutional Powers; CHAPTER ELEVEN: The Proper Scope of Federal Power: The Meaning of theCommerce Clause; CHAPTER TWELVE: The Proper Scope of State Power: Construing the "Police Power"CHAPTER THIRTEEN: Showing Necessity: Judicial Doctrines and Application to Cases; CONCLUSION: Restoring the Lost Constitution; Index of Cases; Index of Names; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; W; Y; Z; General Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; W
• Sommario/riassunto: 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 Cou