Review: A Radical Libertarian Lawyer Charts His Evolution
Georgetown University law professor Randy Barnett argued for the right to medical marijuana for personal use before the Supreme Court in Gonzales v. Raich (2005), and he garnered three votes where most predicted no more than one. He was also part of the legal team in NFIB v. Sebelius (2012) that tried to end Obamacare’s individual insurance purchase mandate. While Barnett’s side lost, the case helped revive the notion that the enumerated powers construct in Article 1, Section 8 of the Constitution could still be meaningfully called on.
Barnett started off in the 1970s, though, as just part of a tiny gang of radical libertarians striving to influence academia and political culture, a devotee of the anarcho-capitalist firebrand Murray Rothbard. Barnett’s intellectual education was shaped by movement organizations such as the Center for Libertarian Studies and the Institute for Humane Studies.
In his memoir, A Life for Liberty, Barnett traces his intellectual entrepreneurship as he shifted his theoretical emphases from punishment and restitution to a consent theory of contracts to constitutional theory. His interest in the latter started by taking the Ninth Amendment’s unenumerated rights seriously when no one else did. The version of originalism he was key in developing and promoting (after many years of thinking that if the Supreme Court wasn’t taking the Constitution seriously, why should he?) says that jurists should examine the understood public meaning of terms in the Founding era as opposed to trying to guess the Framers’ “intentions.” This has become an increasingly influential approach to constitutional thinking.
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Source: https://reason.com/2024/09/27/a-life-for-liberty/
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