Professor Randy Barnett argues that the duty we owe to the Constitution, we owe to the Constitution as amended. The original Constitution, which protected slavery, has been rectified by the addition of the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments. The current Constitution is a good framework for government that rightfully merits obedience.
Professor Randy E. Barnett is the Carmack Waterhouse Professor of Legal Theory at the Georgetown University Law Center, where he teaches constitutional law and contracts, and is Director of the Georgetown Center for the Constitution.
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