Barnett Restoring the Lost Constitution

The Presumption of Liberty - Updated Edition
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ISBN: 978-1-4008-4813-3
Verlag: De Gruyter
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E-Book, Englisch, 448 Seiten

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Autoren/Hrsg.

Barnett, Randy E.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme Zentralregierung
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Studien zu einzelnen Ländern und Gebieten
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte
• Rechtswissenschaften Öffentliches Recht Staats- und Verfassungsrecht
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme Staats- und Regierungsformen, Staatslehre

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface ix
INTRODUCTION Why Care What the Constitution Says? 1
Part I. Constitutional Legitimacy 7
CHAPTER ONE The Fiction of "We the People": Is the Constitution Binding on Us? 11
CHAPTER TWO Constitutional Legitimacy without Consent: Protecting the Rights Retained by the People 32
CHAPTER THREE Natural Rights as Liberty Rights: Retained Rights, Privileges, or Immunities 53
Part II. Constitutional Method 87
CHAPTER FOUR Constitutional Interpretation: An Originalism for Nonoriginalists 91
CHAPTER FIVE Constitutional Construction: Supplementing Original Meaning 120
CHAPTER SIX Judicial Review: The Meaning of the Judicial Power 132
Part III. Constitutional Limits 151
CHAPTER SEVEN Judicial Review of Federal Laws: The Meaning of the Necessary and Proper Clause 155
CHAPTER EIGHT Judicial Review of State Laws: The Meaning of the Privileges or Immunities Clause 193
CHAPTER NINE The Mandate of the Ninth Amendment: Why Footnote Four Is Wrong 226
CHAPTER TEN The Presumption of Liberty: Protecting Rights without Listing Them 255
PART IV. Constitutional Powers 273
CHAPTER ELEVEN The Proper Scope of Federal Power: The Meaning of the Commerce Clause 277
CHAPTER TWELVE The Proper Scope of State Power: Construing the "Police Power" 322
CHAPTER THIRTEEN Showing Necessity: Judicial Doctrines and Application to Cases 338
CONCLUSION Restoring the Lost Constitution 357
AFTERWORD 361
Index of Cases 421
Index of Names 423
General Index 427

Über Autor(innen)

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.