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Federalist society were hosting todays forum. I want to thank the Federalist Society, dean righter and julie nix who are with us today, for their assistance in organizing this forum. I also want to welcome those who are seeing us through cspan and our Live Streaming audience as well. Were here to discuss an important new, an important subject, the Permission Society, the title of a new book from encounter books by the Goldwater Institutes tim sandefur. Subtitled, how the ruling class turns our freedoms into privileges and what we can do about it. This book documents the many ways, especially since the progressive era, that the presumption of liberty, the freedom at the heart of our founding principles and documents, has been extinguished in favor after ....
Time to her book form today on what washington is wrong, the unelected officials who run thet government and their misconceptions about the American People. Many reasons of course its hard to imagine right now as we are about three weeks after the election that brought president elect trump to the brink of office, a book that might be more timely for this moment in america and indeed the turnout today for a book form suggest there widespread interest in the content of this book. Sa also i am delighted to have today as speakers, one of the authors, ginsburg and cattle who have all worked in a Political Science senior and Jennifer Bachner, a new frontier. Indeed, donald trump raises the question that has been on the american agenda for some time, which is a deep satisfaction with much of the country out that its abou ....
Time to her book form today on what washington is wrong, the unelected officials who run thet government and their misconceptions about the American People. Many reasons of course its hard to imagine right now as we are about three weeks after the election that brought president elect trump to the brink of office, a book that might be more timely for this moment in america and indeed the turnout today for a book form suggest there widespread interest in the content of this book. Sa also i am delighted to have today as speakers, one of the authors, ginsburg and cattle who have all worked in a Political Science senior and Jennifer Bachner, a new frontier. Indeed, donald trump raises the question that has been on the american agenda for some time, which is a deep satisfaction with much of the country out that its abou ....
[inaudible conversations] good afternoon. Welcome to the Cato Institute. Its likely to receive wide because it speaks to divisions about gun control, immigration, affirmative action and so much more. But about the far more fundamental division we see in our understanding of our basic law, the constitution and what it authorizes. If we want to better understand and appreciate those service divisions, thats where we have to turn because thats where theyre grounded. And just to be clear, in speaking about republican constitution and the democratic constitution, professor barnett is not making partisan points; rather, as the books subtitle suggests, hes alluding to two fundamentally different understandings of the constitutions first three words, we the people. Profoundly different conceptions that have deep roots in our constitutional history and farreaching implications for our political order. Once we understand those basic differe ....