Restoring the lost constitution
Subtitle: the presumption of liberty
By: Randy E. Barnett
Edition: Updated edition.
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 430
ISBN-13: 9780691159737
Subjects: Constitutional history; Judicial review; United States; Constitutional law; United States. Supreme Court
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Introduction.; title: Why care what the Constitution says? --; title: The fiction of "We the people" : is the Constitution binding on us? --; title: Constitutional legitimacy without consent : protecting rights retained by the people --; title: Natural rights as liberty rights : retained rights, privileges, or immunities --; title: Constitutional interpretation : an originalism for nonoriginalists --; title: Constitutional construction : supplementing original meaning --; title: Judicial review : the meaning of the judicial power --; title: Judicial review of federal laws : the meaning of the necessary and proper clause --; title: Judicial review of state laws : the meaning of the privileges or immunities clause --; title: The mandate of the Ninth Amendment : why footnote four is wrong --; title: The presumption of liberty : protecting rights without listing them --; title: The proper scope of federal power : the meaning of the commerce clause --; title: The proper scope of state power : construing the "police power" --; title: Showing necessity : judicial doctrines and application to cases -- -- Conclusion.; title: Restoring the lost constitution.