has been taking on Randy Barnett on libertarian judicial activism, and Mickey Edwards on conservatives and the Constitution. Interesting stuff. I’ve already said my piece about Barnett’s book in NR. I haven’t read Edwards’s article, since I’m too lazy to register with the L.A. Times. But from everything else I’ve seen of his over the years and from his “Constitution Project,” I’m not surprised by what Bainbridge says. The guiding theory of the Constitution Project is that it’s just too easy to amend the Constitution using the formal amendment process–which accounts for the frightening pace of amendments. Judges’ amending the Constitution, on the other hand, is just a day’s work.