Protecting Liberty with State Constitutions
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🗓️ 14 December 2019
⏱️ 14 minutes
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| 0:33.8 | I'm Caleb Brown. |
| 0:35.0 | State constitutions protect liberty. |
| 0:37.3 | That's no surprise. |
| 0:38.9 | But it's important for state judges |
| 0:40.8 | to know that the US Constitution needn't be consulted if the Liberty |
| 0:45.0 | interest is protected by a State Constitution. |
| 0:48.9 | Rick Essenberg is president and founder of the Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty. |
| 0:54.0 | We spoke in October in Colorado Springs about the wise and house of protecting |
| 0:58.1 | liberty at the state level. |
| 1:00.9 | I will get some of the details wrong here but my friend and former colleague Anthony |
| 1:06.1 | Kamegna at the Cato Institute sort of educated me about Abram D. Smith who wrote |
| 1:10.8 | an important opinion in a case, declaring that a man who had been liberated from slavery |
| 1:20.9 | and ended up in Wisconsin was in fact a resident of Wisconsin and was do all of the rights that |
| 1:30.0 | people in Wisconsin are do. |
| 1:32.0 | And the US Supreme Court overturned that case, |
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