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We the People

The meaning of “one person, one vote”

We the People

National Constitution Center

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4.61K Ratings

🗓️ 12 November 2015

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Rick Hasen of the University of California, Irvine School of Law and Ilya Shapiro of the Cato Institute in Washington preview an important new Supreme Court case about voter equality.

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I'm Jeffrey Rosen, president and CEO of the National Constitution Center,

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and welcome to We The People, a weekly show of constitutional debate.

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

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information about the U.S. Constitution on a nonpartisan basis.

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In these polarized times we are the only place that brings together people of different perspectives

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to learn about, debate, and celebrate the greatest document of human freedom in history, the US Constitution.

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And today we discuss one of the most important cases of the current Supreme Court term,

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Evanwell versus Abbott, which will be heard by the court on December 8th,

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joining me to discuss the meaning of one person, one vote,

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and to tell us how the court will rule

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are two of the nation's leading experts

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in constitutional law and returning champion guests on We The People.

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Rick Hassan is the Chancellor's Professor of Law and Political Science at the University of California Irvine School of Law.

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He is a national expert in election and campaign finance law, and is the

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author of the authoritative election law blog.

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Yellia Shapiro is a senior fellow in constitutional studies at the Cato Institute in Washington

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and editor-in-chief of the Cato Supreme Court review. He's also a member of the

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