--- title: Randy E. Barnett | TIME description: Randy E. Barnett directs the Georgetown Center for the Constitution and is the author of Our Republican Constitution: Securing the Liberty and Sovereignty of We the People. canonical: https://time.com/author/randy-e-barnett-and-lawrence-lessig/ og:title: TIME | Current & Breaking News | National & World Updates og:description: Breaking news and analysis from time.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news. og:url: https://time.com/author/randy-e-barnett-and-lawrence-lessig/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 300 og:image:height: 300 og:image:alt: Breaking news and analysis from time.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news. og:type: profile twitter:card: summary twitter:title: TIME | Current & Breaking News | National & World Updates twitter:description: Breaking news and analysis from time.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Randy E. Barnett ## Randy E. Barnett _Randy E. Barnett directs the Georgetown Center for the Constitution and is the author of_ [Our Republican Constitution: Securing the Liberty and Sovereignty of We the People](https://www.amazon.com/Our-Republican-Constitution-Securing-Sovereignty/dp/0062412299/ref=tmm%5Fpap%5Fswatch%5F0?%5Fencoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=)_._ ## Randy E. Barnett *  Aug 3, 2016 ### [The Real Reason You Can't Vote for an Independent Candidate](https://time.com/4436805/lawrence-lessig-randy-barnett/) A solution to a broken electoral process: overturn ballot-access laws, like we did the poll tax [IDEAS](/section/ideas/) Meta: null ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Organization","@id":"https://time.com/","name":"TIME","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/","name":"Home"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/author/randy-e-barnett-and-lawrence-lessig/","name":"Randy E. Barnett"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Person","@id":"https://time.com/author/randy-e-barnett-and-lawrence-lessig/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/author/randy-e-barnett-and-lawrence-lessig/"},"name":"Randy E. Barnett","jobTitle":null,"description":"Randy E. Barnett directs the Georgetown Center for the Constitution and is the author of Our Republican Constitution: Securing the Liberty and Sovereignty of We the People.","url":"https://time.com/author/randy-e-barnett-and-lawrence-lessig/","sameAs":["https://x.com/RandyEBarnett"],"worksFor":{"@type":"Organization","name":"TIME","url":"https://time.com/"}}] ```