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Gerrymandering and American democracy

January 04, 2018

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In the Gill case this year, the Supreme Court might determine the constitutional future of partisan gerrymandering.

Scholars and advocates have been discussing the arguments at the heart of the case – as well as those involved in related cases heading toward the Supreme Court.

Jeffrey Rosen, president and CEO of the National Constitution Center, moderates this discussion, held at the Center in December 2017.

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Caroline Fredrickson is president of the American Constitution Society. She oversees the group and provides a steady hand of leadership to the nation’s leading progressive legal organization.

 

Nolan McCarty is the Susan Dod Brown Professor of Politics and Public Affairs and Chair of the Department of Politics. He was formerly the associate dean at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs.

 

David Wasserman is House Editor for The Cook Political Report, where he is responsible for handicapping and analyzing U.S. House Races.


 

Jeffrey Rosen is the President and Chief Executive Officer of the National Constitution Center, the only institution in America chartered by Congress “to disseminate information about the United States Constitution on a nonpartisan basis.” He is also a professor at The George Washington University Law School, and a contributing editor for The Atlantic. 


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Our Interactive Constitution is the leading digital resource about the debates and text behind the greatest vision of human freedom in history, the U.S. Constitution. Here, scholars from across the legal and philosophical spectrum interact with each other to explore the meaning of each provision of our founding document. 

 


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