Thanks again to Jack Balkin for hosting to to all the contributors.

Here are the collected posts for our Balkinization symposium on Rick Hasen’s new book, A Real Right to Vote: How a Constitutional Amendment Can Safeguard American Democracy (Princeton University Press, 2024).

1. Jack Balkin, Introduction to the Symposium

2. Michael Waldman, Expanding Our Constitutional Imagination

3. Emily Rong Zhang, Give us (a lasting consensus on really protecting) the Right to Vote!

4. Bruce E. Cain, Going Big on Election Reform: A Political Scientist’s Take on Rick Hasen’s Proposed Constitutional Amendment

5. Alex Keyssar, That Little Omission in the Constitution

6. Wilfred U. Codrington III, A [More] Real Right to Vote?

7. Sanford Levinson, Do We Need Audacity Instead of Measured Prudence? On the Pathos of Richard Hasen’s Call For “A Real Right To Vote”

8 .Derek T. Muller, Some skepticism about (and some promise for) a constitutional right to vote

9. Dan Tokaji, Dare to Dream

10. Richard L. Hasen, A Surreal Right to Vote: Responding to the Balkinization Symposium