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b'The United States is constitutionally not one, but fifty-one, democracies. How can they all fit together? The oldest issue in our republic is the relation between the federal and state governments: where does the democratic decision-making power of one leave off and the other begin? The question remains relevant today on such issues as the proper locus of decisions about abortion. But the relation of the states to one another is now also pressing as states deploy their authority to influence the democratic decision making of other states, on issues as disparate as gun and climate policy. Are the proper boundaries between our different democracies best policed by the judiciary or by democratic politics?
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Moderator: Hon. Andrew Oldham, The United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Prof. Ilya Somin, Professor of Law, George Mason University Antonin Scalia Law School
Prof. Jud Campbell, Professor of Law, University of Richmond School of Law
Prof. Michael S. Greve, Professor of Law, George Mason University Antonin Scalia Law School'