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Jeff, how are you?

I am doing fine, Scott. I just put a new read into my Shani. I've tuned all the strings on my sitar,

and I also have to point out that I am not going to be able to make the next episode because I'm

recording with another podcast instead. I'll be back though. Good, because we're going to be short

on material and it would be good if you could return and help us out for. Well, we could do some

live outtakes from one of our earlier podcasts if you want, put it on the album. Jeff's on Twitter

at Esoteric CD.

And our guest on today's program is a return guest from a little more than a year ago as I went through some old emails.

He's the Patrick Hottung Professor of Constitutional Law at the Georgetown University Law Center, where he directs the Georgetown Center for the Constitution.

His most recent book, The Original Meaning of the 14th Amendment, its letter in spirit, will be published by Harvard University Press.

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