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Two days before President Barack Obama signed the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Randy Barnett wrote this op-ed (abridged here) for the Washington Post. Barnett would eventually find himself on the legal team that challenged the law in the Supreme Court. At this time, however, there were just less-refined arguments and the hope that some court would take those arguments seriously.
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Randy E. Barnett, “The Ninth Amendment: It Means What It Says,” Texas Law Review 85 (2006): 1.
Kurt T. Lash, “The Lost Original Meaning of the Ninth Amendment,” Texas Law Review 83 (2004): 331.
Jack M. Balkin, “Original Meaning & Constitutional Redemption,” Constitutional Commentary 24 (2007): 427.
Randy E. Barnett, Restoring the Lost Constitution: The Presumption of Liberty (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2004).
Kurt T. Lash, The Lost History of the Ninth Amendment (New York: Oxford University Press, 2009).
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© 2013 Randy E. Barnett, Jonathan H. Adler, David E. Bernstein, Orin S. Kerr, David B. Kopel, Ilya Somin, and Trevor Burrus
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Barnett, R.E., Adler, J.H., Bernstein, D.E., Kerr, O.S., Kopel, D.B., Somin, I. (2013). The Law is Passed. In: Burrus, T. (eds) A Conspiracy Against Obamacare. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137363732_3
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