Looking ahead to the Trump presidency

We the People

National Constitution Center

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4.6 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 10 November 2016

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Michael Dorf of Cornell University and Ilya Shapiro of the Cato Institute discuss how the Constitution will restrain or empower the new President. Get the latest constitutional news, and continue the conversation, on Facebook and Twitter. We want to know what you think of the podcast! Go to bit.ly/wethepeoplepodcastto share your feedback. Please subscribe toWe the Peopleand our companion podcast,Live at America’s Town Hall, on iTunes, Stitcher, or your favorite podcast app. We the People is a member of Slate’s Panoply network. Check out the full roster at Panoply.fm. Despite our congressional charter, the National Constitution Center is a private nonprofit; we receive little government support, and we rely on the generosity of people around the country who are inspired by our nonpartisan mission of constitutional debate and education. Please consider becoming a member to support our work, including this podcast. Visit constitutioncenter.org to learn more. This show was engineered by David Stotz and produced by Nicandro Iannacci. Research was provided by Lana Ulrich and Tom Donnelly. The host of We the People is Jeffrey Rosen.

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0:00.0	Greetings We the People listeners. We need your help to make the podcast even better.
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0:26.0	Thanks so much.
0:27.0	I'm Jeffrey Rosen, president and CEO of the National Constitution Center, and welcome
0:37.4	to We The People, a weekly show of constitutional debate.
0:41.1	The National Constitution Center is the only institution in America
0:45.0	chartered by Congress to disseminate information about the US Constitution on a
0:50.4	nonpartisan basis. And this week we discuss the results of the historic 2016 presidential
0:58.1	and congressional elections and what they mean for the future of the Constitution.
1:03.5	Joining me to discuss this centrally important topic
1:07.7	are two of America's leading constitutional scholars,
1:10.8	two members of the National Constitution Center's Coalition of Freedom Advisory Board and the Dream
1:15.8	team of our We The People Podcast.
1:18.4	Michael Dorf is the Robert S Stevens Professor of Law at Cornell University Law School,
1:23.3	and Ilia Shapiro is a senior fellow in constitutional studies
1:26.4	at the Cato Institute and Editor-in-Chief of the Cato Supreme Court
1:30.0	review.
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