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Robert McWhirter - Just Who are Those “People” in the Tenth Amendment?

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Robert McWhirter - Just Who are Those “People” in the Tenth Amendment?

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OVERVIEW:

“We the People” are the first words of the constitution and if you include the Bill of Rights as part of the whole package, the constitution’s last words are the Tenth Amendment’s “the people.”

But who gets to be “the People”? Blacks, Native Americans, women, Catholics, and poor folk didn’t count in 1789.

This presentation traces American slavery, hypocrisy, Federalism, and the struggle for freedom.

It presents how people fought for the right to be “the People.”

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BIO:

ROBERT J. MCWHIRTER

Certified Specialist in Criminal Law Supervising Attorney, ASU Alumni Law Group

Robert J. McWhirter is a nationally and internationally known speaker and author on trial advocacy, immigration law, and the history of the bill of rights. He is a Certified Specialist in Criminal Law with the State Bar of Arizona and first chair qualified to defend capital cases by the Arizona Supreme Court.

The American Bar Association will publish Mr. McWhirter’s upcoming book BILLS, QUILLS, AND STILLS: THE HISTORY OF THE BILL OF RIGHTS (working title) in 2014. The American Bar Association has published his books THE CRIMINAL LAWYER’S GUIDE TO IMMIGRATION LAW: QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS, 2nd Ed. 2006 and THE CITIZENSHIP FLOWCHART, 2007. In 2010, in Padilla v. Kentucky Justice Alito extensively quoted from his book. Mr. McWhirter has served on the American Bar Association Criminal Justice Section and on the Standard Committee writing the CRIMINAL JUSTICE STANDARDS.

Mr. McWhirter has extensively taught in Latin America on comparative criminal procedure and trail advocacy in Venezuela, Colombia, Mexico, Nicaragua, Ecuador, Uruguay and has been a visiting professor at the Catholic University of Chile and the University of Chile. In 2010-2011, Mr. McWhirter served in El Salvador administering an $11 million USAID project to reform the justice system where he successfully developed and oversaw programs and trainings for the Salvadoran courts, police, prosecutors, and public defenders. Mr. McWhirter still travels to Latin America, most recently in August 2013 on a lecture tour as a speaker grant recipient for the United States State Department and in Uruguay training prosecutors.

In 2009, Mr. McWhirter was named a Southwest Super Lawyer, a rare instance for a public defender. Mr. McWhirter is also the 2009 recipient of the Phoenix Saint Thomas More Award and the immediate past president of Arizona Attorney’s for Criminal Justice.

Mr. McWhirter is currently a Supervising Attorney at the ASU Law Alumni Group defending clients accused of crime.

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