Restoring the Guardrails of Democracy
We the People
National Constitution Center
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🗓️ 14 July 2022
⏱️ 56 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hello friends. I'm Jeffrey Rosen, president and CEO of the National Constitution |
| 0:06.8 | Center. I'm so excited to share today's episode with you on both of our |
| 0:10.8 | podcasts, We The People, and Live at the NCC. |
| 0:14.8 | On July 6th, we hosted a panel |
| 0:17.3 | to present the reports of the teams participating |
| 0:20.7 | in our Restoring the Guardrails of Democracy initiative. |
| 0:24.4 | The project brings together three teams of leading experts, |
| 0:26.9 | Libertarian, Conservative, and Progressive, to identify legal and technological reforms that might address current threats to American democracy. |
| 0:36.8 | Edward Foley is the leader of Team Progressive, he holds the Ebursole chair in constitutional |
| 0:41.7 | law at the Ohio State University. |
| 0:44.0 | Sarah Isker is leader of team conservative. |
| 0:46.6 | She's a staff writer at the dispatch where she co-hosts the legal |
| 0:50.0 | podcast Advisory Opinion. |
| 0:51.9 | And Clark Neely is leader of team libertarian. |
| 0:54.3 | He's senior vice president for legal studies at the Cato Institute. |
| 0:58.3 | It was a wonderful conversation and I'm so happy to share it with you. |
| 1:02.0 | On with the show. |
| 1:03.4 | Welcome, team leaders and friends. |
| 1:06.9 | I'd like to start by asking each of you |
| 1:09.8 | to summarize the highlights of your reports |
| 1:12.3 | and then we'll explore similarities and differences. |
| 1:15.8 | What was most striking in reading the reports is that all three of you acknowledged a common problem, namely that safeguards are necessary to prevent the kind of what the progressive report calls negation of election results attempted by Donald Trump in the aftermath of the 2020 presidential election. |
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