robert cooper grier voted for dred scott. he is the only northerner who voted for dred scott, and he did that in a conspiracy with the incoming president, president james buchanan. they thought that if dred scott lived to be a national decision, that a northerner would vote for it as well, the issue of slavery would be done with. there would be no threat of a civil war. what that showed of course was the limits of the power of vistaprint court decision to, you know -- power of the supreme court decision to change, you know, the mood. to tear the country apart. that is a cautionary tale today. obviously, slavery is a huge, divisive issue, but the supreme court cannot go beyond the national consensus. they can take action to tear the country apart, and in that sense, you know, they are a political body, but they are also reflective of the national climate, maybe, not the national weather, but the natural climate. host: and we have seen the supreme court has had to jump into more issues, because it seems like congress is not han

robert cooper grier voted for dred scott. only northerner who voted for dred scott, and he did that in a conspiracy with the incoming president, president james buchanan. they thought that if dred scott lived to be a national decision, that a northerner would vote for it as well, the issue of slavery would be done with. there would be no threat of a civil war. what that showed of course was the limits of the power of vistaprint court decision to, you know -- power of the supreme court decision to change, you know, the mood. to tear the country apart. that is a cautionary tale today. obviously, slavery is a huge, divisive issue, but the supreme court cannot go beyond the national consensus. they can take action to tear the country apart, and in that sense, you know, they are a political body, but they are also reflective of the national climate, maybe, not the national weather, but the natural climate. host: and we have seen the supreme court has had to jump into more issues, because it seems like congress is not handling the,

host: we are back with peter grier, the washington editor for christian science monitor, who is here to talk about an eight-p art series and our spotlight on magazines segment, "democracy under strain." peter, thank you for being here. guest: thank you for having me on. host: what prompted an eight-pa rt series, "democracy under strain"? well, we are trying to find out what adds to the conversation. we look at all the stuff going wrong with democracy today. partisanship is out of control. isre is gridlock, nothing getting done. peter has been around a while, and he can look and see how these things stretch beyond the trumpcare wreck how they started, and where they are going. host: so the most recent piece was entitled "block the vote: the history of efforts to change and contain and change voting practices in america." on voting access, and what did you find? thet: well, i started with vote. voting is of course the core aspect of democracy. it is how we participate, and there are a lot of issues surrounding voting right now. is onely voting rights that a lot of democrats and republi

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host: we are back with peter grier, the washington editor for christian science monitor, who is here

then peter grier discusses his magazines democracy under strain series looking at the challenges it isacing. we talk about ethics in the trump administration. he sure to watch c-span's live atton journal" 7:00 a.m. eastern. join the discussion. this weekend, american history tv has live up to day coverage of the annual gettysburg college civil war institute summer conference. this morning at 8:30 a.m. eastern, with a discussion on jubal early and the unionist cause. a look at not turner's rebellion. the combat experience of civil war soldiers with peter carmichael. and a panel discussion on the artifacts of the civil war moderated by brian from west virginia university. on sunday, our live coverage continues with a discussion on preserving gettysburg national military park with jennifer murray from oklahoma state university. a look at the civil war and emancipation in the heart of theica with ed ayers from university of richmond followed by a discussion on seeing the conflict through the eyes of leading historians. watch the annual gettysburg college civil war institute summer conferen