{"id":33136,"date":"2017-08-26T01:00:20","date_gmt":"2017-08-26T05:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=33136"},"modified":"2017-08-15T09:35:25","modified_gmt":"2017-08-15T13:35:25","slug":"qotd-the-american-constitution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2017\/08\/26\/qotd-the-american-constitution\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: The American Constitution"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>All things considered, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newrepublic.com\/article\/122645\/rehabilitationists-libertarian-movement-undo-new-deal\" target=\"_blank\">this <em>New Republic<\/em> piece on Randy Barnett and the libertarian constitutional movement<\/a> is really pretty good. But I thought this part was revealing:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<p><em>Barnett believes the Constitution exists to secure inalienable property and contract rights for individuals. This may sound like a bland and inconsequential opinion, but if widely adopted by our courts and political systems it would prohibit or call into question basic governmental protections \u2014 minimum wages, food-safety regulations, child-labor laws \u2014 that most of us take for granted. For nearly a century now, a legal counterculture has insisted that the whole New Deal project was a big, unconstitutional error, and Barnett is a big part of that movement today.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If your entire program is called into question by the notion that individuals have property and contract rights, maybe the problem is with your program.<\/p>\n<p>And to the extent that, as believed by many, the Supreme Court\u2019s eventual accommodation to the New Deal was the product of duress in the form of FDR\u2019s court-packing scheme, then isn\u2019t that accommodation, in fact, illegitimate?<\/p>\n<p>Glenn Reynolds, <a href=\"https:\/\/pjmedia.com\/instapundit\/213501\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Instapundit<\/em><\/a>, 2015-08-31.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All things considered, this New Republic piece on Randy Barnett and the libertarian constitutional movement is really pretty good. But I thought this part was revealing: Barnett believes the Constitution exists to secure inalienable property and contract rights for individuals. This may sound like a bland and inconsequential opinion, but if widely adopted by our [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,53,41,13],"tags":[715,866,550,217,752],"class_list":["post-33136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","category-politics","category-quotations","category-usa","tag-constitution","tag-fdr","tag-libertarianism","tag-rights","tag-supremecourt"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-8Cs","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33136","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33136"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33136\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33137,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33136\/revisions\/33137"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}