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Hosted this hourlong event. We are thrilled to welcome akhil reed amar, sterling professor of law and Political Science at Yale University back to New York Historical society. Before joining Yale Law School professor amar clerked on the First Circuit for judge steven then judge stephen breyer, he is also a recipient of the devane medical, yales highest award for teaching excellence and is the author of several books including the law of the land, a grand tour of our constitutional republic. And i think akhil was voted the most popular professor at yale at least he is my most popular professor and you are all here, i think, if you all are here because you know him, he is your most popular professor. So before we begin and invite our popular professor up on the stage, please turn off any cell phones, Electronic Devices and join me in welcoming akhil reed amar. Thank you. [ applause ] well, good evening. Welcome. Thank you so much for for coming. This is the New York Historical society, w
He knew it at the time. So they wouldnt sign the brief. They said were not signing it, were not going to defend this. Then they a big fight between departments and who was brought in to mediate, herbert j. Wexler. He was running the war part of the Justice Department was a Master Genius and he wrote a footnote, disowning the army on this issue and he wrote it in words that no one could understand. So he convinced burly to sign the brief and the Justice Departments position, i dont know, you read it and see if you can figure out exactly what it was. In fact, who won the case . The government. 63. Famous case. And who is it who upheld . The government. Black, douglas, frankfurter, the liberals who had, in fact, would sign brown versus board. And they were all on the government side. It was the three dissenters were be roberts, murphy and jackson. And there was 63. I thought for a long time maybe they didnt understand there was so little evidence. Footnote, who reads footnotes. [ laughter
And 58th worst states. But at the top we see idaho, indiana, wyoming, kansas, and iowa. Now when you add fiscal policies and regulatory policies together we get Economic Freedom as a whole and there are other studies that measure Economic Freedom out there but we think we do a decent job at combining regulatory and fiscal as we see it and giving an overarching Economic Freedom index itself and that could be utilized even if youre not interested in the other aspects we measure here. In terms of Economic Freedom you see at the bottom we have new york, california, hawaii, new jersey, and maryland. At the top, New Hampshire comes in fifth followed by moving the scale to oklahoma, tennessee, idaho and the top state in terms of Economic Freedom in the country is south dakota. Next well talk about personal freedom. Here you have a whole range of policies that before the Freedom Index were not measured in any of these indices of freedom. We think thats a big value add for looking at this wider