Catherine Taylor, Visiting Practitioner on the Heywood Fellowship team, shares lessons on gauging citizens’ opinions at a two-day workshop.

🎬 That’s a wrap on the first ‘Your Voice on Immigration’ public deliberation event with the Home Affairs Committee. Over the weekend, we brought together a representative group of the public to explo...

Background: Public deliberation is an approach used to engage persons with diverse perspectives in discussions and decision-making about issues affecting the public that are controversial or value laden. Because experts have identified the need to…

Historian Jill Lepore told a Concord Museum audience that constitutional change is chiefly a product of amendment efforts and public contestation, noting 27 ratified amendments and more than 12,000 proposals introduced in Congress.