📚 3 Books mentioned in "On Classical Liberalism and The Constitution | Randy Barnett | POLITICS | Rubin Report" of The Rubin Report

state governments can do bad things You Clint bolck uh who's now a Supreme Court Justice in Arizona wrote a book called Grassroots tyranny because of the Terrible Things That local people governments do

Guest Randy Barnett mentions a book by Clint Bolick about the negative actions of local governments.

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I in my book our Republican Constitution I have at least one chapter on separation of powers and two chapters on federalism about how these constraints on federal power have been systematically overridden for a long time for a hundred years not just recently and as a result um one by one of the checks on the president's power have been eliminated and it makes us more vulnerable to an authoritarian president

Guest Randy Barnett mentions his book and discusses its content regarding separation of powers and federalism.

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and so I instead of arguing only for libertarian first principles which I also believe in and I have a book called the structure of Liberty which argues for instead of just arguing for libertarian first principles I think it's worth my time to talk about this text of the Constitution that is better and it's not a perfectly libertarian document but it's more libertarian than the actual government that currently we have

Guest Randy Barnett mentions his book and contrasts its focus on libertarian principles with his focus on the Constitution's text.

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