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Equal Citizens — a nonprofit founded by Harvard Law Professor Lawrence Lessig — is dedicated to reforms that will achieve citizen equality. Through a series of projects that aim to restore the core promise of citizen equality in our Constitution, we will end the corruption of our representative democracy.
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ANOTHER WAY PODCAST
A weekly podcast about the past, present, and future of American democracy.
This season, Larry Lessig talks to leading politicians, authors, activists, and scholars about the threats our democracy faces and the various ways we can reinvigorate the promise of democracy. Subscribe using the tools on this page, or listen to episodes below.. Listen →
OUR PROJECTS
ANOTHER WAY PODCAST
Is there a way to make the 2020 election about something more than simply defeating President Trump? Can it become an election that unites America? Can we leverage what unifies America, and get an (unrigged) democracy that could work? That’s the hope described in this six episodes — Another Way, Season One.
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The Right’s fight to silence “originalism”
S7E1: Common Ground?
In this season, Lessig will have a conversation with Ben Hepburn, a friend from high school, whose politics is not Lessig's. The plan for the season is to check in regularly about the latest questions raised by the new Trump administration, and see whether a...
Maine Public Radio: Two Maine PACs and free speech group challenge new limits on political contributions
WHAT WE FIGHT FOR
EQUAL
REPRESENTATION
Citizens should be represented equally in elections
EQUAL
DEPENDENCE
Representatives should depend on citizens equally
EQUAL FREEDOM
TO VOTE
Citizens should have the same opportunity to vote
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