Website, booktv. Org. [inaudible conversation] okay. Once more if i can have your attention. Can everybody hear me in the back . If you are in the back and anybody is standing we have the monitors on tonight. There is monitor in the cafe and by one of the registers next to you. If anyone wants to get a slightly better view you can go to the cafe or monitor out there. Welcome to book passage. I am dana kelly. Pleasure to have you and pleasure to have mary roach back. Shooe has been here for a many number of tight ldz and it is always a pleasure to have her back. Tonight is grunt. It is about what the military has to go through. We are not going to mars tonight. We are going to the frontli lin and there are things i didnt know about and you will find out about what the military has to go through in various ways. I will mention one which i dont know if mary will talk about. Part of the things we learn is how diarreha can be a threat to the nations security. Mary wfs brilliance is beautifu
A farmer criminal prosecutor put county illinois chicago and i had the medical marijuana case and i was one of the lawyers for the National Federation of independent business when they challenged the Affordable Care act all the way up to the Supreme Court. Host given all that experience, professor barnett, what do you think of the constitution . Guest like the constitutional law. I like it more than those who want to change it by creating interpretations of what is supposed to mean by eliminating large parts of the constitution. Host heres your book, by the way, restoring the lost consultation the presumption of liberty. When we had that argument between a living document in a strict constructionist argument, looking at the constitution, is that a fair argument . Guest i wouldnt put it quite that way. I want to follow the constitution and thats what keeps it alive. As firstrate construction, it was justice goalie when he says he went to correctly construe it. Neither strictly and are l
The National Federation of independent business when they challenged the Affordable Care act all the way up to the Supreme Court. Host given all that experience, professor barnett, what do you think of the constitution . Guest like the constitutional law. I like it more than those who want to change it by creating interpretations of what is supposed to mean by eliminating large parts of the constitution. Host heres your book, by the way, restoring the lost consultation the presumption of liberty. When we had that argument between a living document in a strict constructionist argument, looking at the constitution, is that a fair argument . Guest i wouldnt put it quite that way. I want to follow the constitution and thats what keeps it alive. As firstrate construction, it was justice goalie when he says he went to correctly construe it. Neither strictly and are liberally, but accurately thats the thing we have to aim for. Host the subtitle of your book is the presumption of liberty. Gues
Randy barnett is now joining us on booktv. Us on ellis about yourself. Im a professor of legal lite er Georgetown Law School were ih also direct Georgetown Center for the constitution and im a former criminalfo prosecutor inr cook county illinois in chicago but i argued the medical marijuana case in the Supreme Court and i was one of the lawyers for the National Federation of independent business when the challenge the Affordable Care act all the way up to the t Supreme Court. Given all that experience, what you think o of the constitution . Id like to constitutional law. I think i like it a lot more than those who want to change it. By having created judicial interpretations of what itscr supposed to mean and eliminatin large part of the constitution. So when we have that argument come and hoosier book by the way, showing restoring the lost constitution the presumption of liberty, when we have thatf argument between the livingcumt documents and a strict constructionist argument lookin
I justices on the Supreme Court including chief Justice Robert thought requiring people to engage in Economic Activity or commerce in order that it can be regulated was beyond the powers of congress. Therefore, the individual mandate is unconstitutional and the reason he was unable to uphold the Affordable Care act with his view that do this ceiling construction which he changed mandate into an option to either pay a tax combat pay the penalty which he construed as a tax or buy insurance, but you are no longer required to buy insurance because i was unconstitutional, just like we argued. Host randy barnett, if someone reads a restoring the lost consultation, do they have to be a law scholar . Guest i hope not. It was for a general lay audience i have people who fret at more than one third event of gifts to others because it really opens their eyes about what is missing in the constitution and how it came to be. It is a serious book. It is not superlight, although i try to be lighter th