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On September 1787, the United States Constitutional Convention signed the U.S. Constitution

into the highest law of the land.

To celebrate Constitution Day and the publication of the fifth volume of the annual Cato Supreme

Court review, the Cato Institute would like to offer you a copy of the Pocket Constitution completely free of charge.

To send an email with your name and address to Constitution at Cato.org for your free copy.

For today's podcast, I am speaking with Roger Pillan, Vice President for Legal Affairs, and Director of the Center for Constitutional Studies.

This is the fifth annual Cato Supreme Court Review. Why did you decide five years ago to begin publishing this

review? Well the main reason is because there was no such review out there. Over the

years we've seen articles critiquing the court from a classical

Madisonian perspective scattered throughout law reviews

around the country.

But what we wanted to do was to provide one place,

one locus whereby a person could turn to find a critique of the court's term

just ended plus a look at the cases coming up from this classical liberal Madisonian perspective whereby the

Constitution is viewed as protecting individual liberty through limited

government and so we set in motion this review. Liberty through limited government.

And so we set in motion this review five years ago,

and we've now produced five annual reviews.

And so there is a record there for students of the Constitution, students of the

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