I'm Jeffrey Rosen, President and CEO of the National Constitution Center, and welcome to the latest of our We the People constitutional podcasts.

The National Constitution Center is the only institution in America chartered by Congress to disseminate information about the

U.S. Constitution on a nonpartisan basis.

And today I am thrilled to announce some exciting news that will transform constitutional debate and education in America.

At least that is our hope and I'm eager for your thoughts.

The National Constitution Center announces today the formation of our Coalition of Freedom Advisory Board.

The Coalition of Freedom is a three-year initiative made possible by a very generous grant

from the John Templeton Foundation, and we are bringing together the best scholars in America

to participate in town hall constitutional debates across the country and to in Treasury Board has some spectacular co-chairs. They include the heads of the Federalist Society

and the American Constitution Society. Carolyn Fredrickson, the head of the American Constitution Society, and by Lee Otis, Senior Vice President and Faculty Division Director of the Federalist Society.

And they are joined by their scholarly co-chairs, Richard Pildis of New York University School

of Law and Nicholas Quinn Rosenkrantz of the Georgetown University Law Center.

Both Rick and Nick are joining us on our podcast today to discuss what all of us hope to achieve with this advisory board and how we hope to

affect constitutional education in America.

Quick introductions, Rick Pildis is the settler family professor of constitutional law at the New York University Law School, the nation's leading expert on election law and issues affecting democracy.

Nick Rosenkrantz is in addition to being professor of law at Georgetown University law

school, a senior fellow at the Cato Institute, path-breaking expert in issues involving presidential power among other topics

that we'll discuss as well as a great partner of the National Constitution Center in our constitutional debates with Intelligence

Squared.

Nick and Rick, welcome.

Thank you so much for joining and sharing the Coalition of Freedom Advisory Board. I'm going to start with you, Nick. Our goal in

creating this Advisory Board, along with the Federalist Society and Constitution Society,

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