Total run time:
45m
This module covers some basic concepts in Contract Law. What are the necessary parts of a contract? When might a contract be unenforceable? What role do contracts play in a common law system? How do contracts help individuals and society develop products and services that would otherwise be too difficult?
Professor Randy Barnett argues that the Constitution is not a contract but there are important similarities. Officials who swear an oath to defend the Constitution are bound to it contractually. Also, contracts are interpreted according to their writ
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Professor Randy Barnett argues that the Constitution is not a contract but there are important similarities. Officials who swear an oath to defend the Constitution are bound to it contractually. Also, contracts are interpreted according to their written words (as opposed to intentions) and according to the meaning they had at the time of agreement. The Originalist theory of Constitutional interpretation also utilizes these principles.
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.
As always, the Federalist Society takes no position on particular legal or public policy issues; all expressions of opinion are those of the speaker.
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Total run time:
45m
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