Prof. Lindsey (Lindsay) Cormack

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Serial Killers & Murderous Minds · Introducing: Government That Doesn’t Suck · 19 Jul 2026 podcast

When is the first time you remember reading the Constitution?

I think that's really lucky.

I think most of us can get to our 18th birthday, be fully eligible to participate in the American experiment, but not really know the rule book at all, having never cracked it.

And that's something that I think makes me a little bit sad when I get to interact with new undergrads every year.

Because I know that no one likes playing a game they don't know the rules to, whether it's like a card game, a board game, or politics.

And I'm like, guys, this game can't feel that good.

If you haven't read the rules, you have to have that if you want it to be something that you can have a better chance of winning.

I think this is sort of the point of shared governance is that you have to have people who understand oversight and accountability.

And if we all want to play like, oh, that's not for me to know, or, oh, I never learned that.

then we're never going to have something that feels accountable.

We have to understand what it is that they can be held account for.

And so that's one of the reasons I'm happy that you got to read the Constitution early on.

I didn't do this till the very end of high school.

And I will say I probably didn't understand it until the very end of a PhD.

And I still learn things.

I read it once a year.

I get to do it in class and I learn things every time I do it.

But I really think we sort of under gear our citizens to understand the world that they're stepping into because we don't have most of them read it.

And I think if we're talking about this like a business, we're obviously the shareholders.

And instead of like a set annual meeting, we actually get tons of annual meetings and tons of places for like customer feedback in the form of elections.

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