Randy E. Barnett > Quotes

“If legislation is truly necessary, one would expect the government to be able to provide proof of this beyond anecdote and speculation. Such proof is the least we can expect before we accept a government restriction of liberty as legitimate.”
― Randy E. Barnett, Restoring the Lost Constitution: The Presumption of Liberty

“One suspects that, at some level, progressives grasp the power of this dynamic, which is why they advocate for national legislation for every problem to defeat the individual liberty that federalism helps secure.”
― Randy E. Barnett, Our Republican Constitution: Securing the Liberty and Sovereignty of We the People

“And our Republican Constitution left even the supremely important policy of exactly how to define, prosecute, and try such offenses as murder, rape, and robbery to the diversity of state legal systems.”
― Randy E. Barnett, Our Republican Constitution: Securing the Liberty and Sovereignty of We the People