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Country, pay your poll tax. go get your voter i. sdrchlt. >> thats what it is. >> to be a good american, we should make voting easy, versus to be a good american, basically jump over the hurdled. is that what were looking at here? the battle of the fundamental meaning? >> two things going on. our elections should be free, fair and accessible. but we have a really underlying discussion going on in this country about whether or not voting really is a right or a privilege. we have to have that conv...

There and said to the judge, she is right. we did what she said. >> thats a problem. in these cases the 6th amendment plays very deep it says a number of things. but it says you are allowed a public trial. but more importantly a fair trial, and thats by an impartial jury. whenever you have an unsettling much that process and the jury has made up their mind not to take the process seriously it becomes reversible error. mercedes will tell you judges repeatedly during the course of the rule are adm...

Effect until the next congressional session. not exactly an issue that recalibrated society, but still, an achievement when you consider that that amendment was first proposed 202 years earlier. changing the constitution is really hard to do. the last constitutional amendment to pass before the 27th, before the salary rule was 20 years before that. it was the 26th amendment. it established the natural voting age at 18 years old. constitutional amendments are very difficult to get through. take t...

The last constitutional amendment to pass before the 27th, before the salary rule, was 20 years before that it was the 26th amendment. it established the natural voting age at 18 years old. constitutional amendments are very difficult to get through. take the equal rights amendment, for example. it affirms that men and women have equal rights under the law. simple enough, right? au contraire, mon frer. it was in 1923 just a few years after women won the right to vote, like actual citizens. then ...

Down -- sometimes they laid down very specific rules. sometimes they laid down broad principles. either way we applied what they said. what they meant to do. so in that sense, we are all originalists. >> we also made changes and in the -- bill of rights, my own state of vermont didnt join the union until it saw the bill of rights would be ratified. the 19th amendment expansion of votes for women and the -- 26th amendment, the -- allowed 18-year-olds to go. we have seen major changes over the yea...