Think the poll really shows that the Supreme Court is relevant. It is encouraging for us in the landmark cases and it takes a look at 12 decisions over time that have currency today and eight of those decisions are listed in that poll, so i think doesows that the court play an Important Role in society. The genesis of this was Ruth Bender Ginsburg was talking to the National Constitution Center Dinner and the Constitutional Center to be taken look at is not only the decisions that people involved in the cases. We wanted to take a look at not only historic Supreme Court decisions that really the people involved, the personal stories, the people i cared enough to take the case all the way to the Supreme Court. Host one of the series air . And more background about how these cases were chosen. Series is a 12 part series that begins monday, october 5, this coming monday as the court comes in on the first monday in october for the new session. Each monday night of 9 00 until 10 30 on cspan and cspan3, we will do 90 minute programs and they take a look at all the 12 cases. Host in the background on how these cases were chosen . There are a lot more time, proby over 20000 and we had to know it down to 12. You could do a parlor game because we came up with 12 along with our partners at the constitution center. We talked to constitutional scholars, legal scholars on the left and the right to come up with this list. It was tough because there are a lot of great decisions and important decisions not on the list that this is a good next, different amendments to the constitution, personal stories. Sometimes these cases are cases where the court got it right and set precedents followed all the way through today and some of these cases, dred scott, korematsu are cases where maybe the court got it wrong. Host the Supreme Court kicks off the new term on monday. Tell us which case you will be featuring monday night when the series against and why. Mark one day night, we feature library versus madison, the Foundation Ball bearing versus matzo, the c as the ultif the constitution judicial review which is still being debated today whether the court is stepping into much. Ande is a debate going on this shows relevance one the court should decide issues like gay marriage. Marbury versus madison establishes that but it is a great case that shows the personal stories behind the cases. There is a battle going on in this between john adams, thomas jefferson, and john marshall, behind the scenes that is the story of this case. It has legal importance but the shows are also personal stories that are engaging and i think eliminating all the time pwe ark eliminating all the time pwe
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