{"product_id":"we-the-voters","title":"We the Voters","description":"\u003ch2\u003eWe the Voters\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eThe Constitutional Choices That Shape America's Elections\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLori A. Ringhand\u003cbr\u003eStanford University Press, 2026\u003cbr\u003eISBN 9781503645479\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHardcover, 224 pp.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e8.5 X 5.5 X 1.0 inches | 0.8 pounds\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMany Americans today are frustrated, unsettled, or just plain perplexed about the rules governing our democracy and who gets make them. Concern about rigged systems, confusion about the Electoral College, and uncertainty about who's in charge of it all have shaken our faith in elections as a reliable way to peacefully transfer political power in a deeply fractured nation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eWe the Voters\u003c\/i\u003e, Lori A. Ringhand brings a fresh perspective to these issues. In straightforward and accessible language, she explains how certain questions - who \"we the people\" are, how they should be represented, and who gets to make the rules governing our elections - have always lurked just beneath the surface of our nation's most contentious fights about how our elections should work.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhen there are clear answers to these questions, this book explains them. But its primary purpose is to help readers understand why so many of these questions are genuinely difficult, and how decisions made by past generations both structure and empower our choices today. Using constitutional text, history, and landmark Supreme Court decisions, Ringhand shows how the Constitution often serves less as rigid rule book for our elections and more as a general framework, empowering each generation of Americans to engage for themselves the important questions underlying our electoral system by interrogating what is and isn't working for them.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eWe the Voters\u003c\/i\u003e is pragmatic, but also optimistic. In the end, the Constitution leaves the defense of our democracy up to us; it equips us with the tools we need to question, debate, and ultimately change how our system of self-government works. This book urges us to take up that call with vigor.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eLori A. Ringhand\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is the Josiah Meigs University of Georgia Distinguished Teaching Professor at University of Georgia Law School. She is the author or co-author of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eSupreme Bias\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e (Stanford, 2023), and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eSupreme Court Confirmation Hearings and Constitutional Change\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e (2013). She received the law school's highest teaching honor, the C. Ronald Ellington Award for Excellence in Teaching, in 2010 and 2015.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ingram","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52976569286970,"sku":"235479","price":26.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0814\/2929\/9514\/files\/Wethevoters.webp?v=1770232000","url":"https:\/\/edenbookstore.shop\/products\/we-the-voters","provider":"Eden Seminary Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}