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In this episode, We explore religious liberty and the founders with Jane Calvert, author of Penman of the Founding: A Biography of John Dickinson, Vincent Phillip Muñoz, author of Religious Liberty and the American Founding: Natural Rights and the Original Meanings of the First Amendment Religion Clauses, and Thomas Kidd, author of God of Liberty: A Religious History of the American Revolution. Jeffrey Rosen, president and CEO of the National Constitution Center, moderates.
Resources
The First Amendment, National Constitution Center exhibit
Jane E. Calvert, Penman of the Founding: A Biography of John Dickinson (2024)
Thomas Kidd, Thomas Jefferson: A Biography of Spirit and Flesh (2022)
Vincent Phillip Muñoz, Religious Liberty and the American Founding: Natural Rights and the Original Meanings of the First Amendment Religion Clauses (2022)
Thomas Kidd, God of Liberty: A Religious History of the American Revolution (2010)
Vincent Phillip Muñoz , God and the Founders: Madison, Washington, and Jefferson (2009)
Letter From George Washington to the Hebrew Congregation in Newport, Rhode Island, (August 18, 1790)
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In this episode, Christopher Cox, former U.S. congressman and author of the new book, Woodrow Wilson: The Light Withdrawn, and Professor Geoffrey Stone of the University of Chicago discuss Wilson’s presidential legacy, constitutional vision, and impact on American democracy. Jeffrey Rosen, president and CEO of the National Constitution Center, moderates.ResourcesChristopher Cox, Woodrow Wilson: The Light Withdrawn (2024)Espionage Act of 1917 and Sedition Act of 1918Committee on Public Information, Free Speech Center (2009; updated 2024)The First Amendment, National Constitution Center exhibitSusan B. Anthony Amendment, National Susan B. Anthony Museum & HouseJustice Brandeis, OyezGeoffrey Stone, “Woodrow Wilson, Princeton University, and the Battles We Choose to Fight,” Huffington Post (Nov. 21, 2015)Stay Connected and Learn MoreQuestions or comments about the show? Email us at [email protected] the conversation by following us on social media @ConstitutionCtr.Sign up to receive Constitution Weekly, our email roundup of constitutional news and debate.Subscribe, rate, and review wherever you listen.Join us for an upcoming live program or watch recordings on YouTube.Support our important work.Donate
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In celebration of Native American Heritage month, Keith Richotte Jr., author of the forthcoming book, The Worst Trickster Story Ever Told: Native America, the Supreme Court, and the U.S. Constitution and Matthew L.M. Fletcher of the University of Michigan discuss Native American history and law through the stories of landmark Supreme Court cases. Jeffrey Rosen, president and CEO of the National Constitution Center, moderates.
Resources:
Matthew L.M. Fletcher, The Ghost Road: Anishinaabe Responses to Indian Hating (2020)
Keith Richotte Jr., The Worst Trickster Story Ever Told: Native America, the Supreme Court, and the U.S. Constitution (forthcoming 2025)
United States v. Kagama (1886)
United States v. Lara (2004)
Matthew L.M. Fletcher, “Muskrat Textualism,” Northwestern Law Review, Jan. 16, 2022.
McGirt v. Oklahoma (2020)
Ex Parte Crow Dog (1883)
Major Crimes Act
Oliphant v. Suquamish Indian Tribe (1978)
Montana v. United States (1981)
Indian Civil Rights Act
Duro v. Reina (1990)
Haaland v. Brackeen (2023)
Turtle Talk Blog
Worcester v. Georgia (1832)
Oklahoma v. Castro-Huerta (2022)
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On the eve of the 2024 presidential election, join Jesse Wegman, author of Let the People Pick the President: The Case for Abolishing the Electoral College, and professor Robert Hardaway, author of Saving the Electoral College: Why the National Popular Vote Would Undermine Democracy, for a program examining the history and current debate over the Electoral College. Jeffrey Rosen, president and CEO of the National Constitution Center, moderates.
Resources:
Robert Hardaway, Saving the Electoral College Why the National Popular Vote Would Undermine Democracy (2019)
Jesse Wegman, Let the People Pick the President: The Case for Abolishing the Electoral College (2020)
Electoral College, Article II, Section 1, Clauses 2 and 3, Interactive Constitution
National Popular Vote
Ranked Choice Voting
Article I, Section III, The Senate, Interactive Constitution
Cass Sunstein, “On Jan. 6, Will Vice President Harris Certify the Election?,” Wall Street Journal, Oct. 25, 2024
Gary Lawson and Jack Beerman, “Congressional Meddling In Presidential Elections: Still Unconstitutional After All These Years; A Comment On Sunstein,” April 2023
“The Very Real Scenario Where Trump Loses and Takes Power Anyway,” Politico, Oct. 20, 2024
Moore v. Harper (2023)
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This month, the National Constitution Center convened the 2024 National First Amendment Summit, in partnership with FIRE and NYU’s First Amendment Watch. America’s leading legal thinkers joined for a vigorous discussion on the state of free speech in America and around the globe. This episode features a conversation about global free speech with Jason Rezaian of The Washington Post. He spent 544 days unjustly imprisoned by Iranian authorities until his release in January 2016. Jeffrey Rosen, President and CEO of the National Constitution Center, moderates.
Resources:
2024 National First Amendment Summit
FIRE: Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression
NYU’s First Amendment Watch
The Washington Post’s Press Freedom Partnership
Jason Rezaian, Prisoner: My 544 Days in an Iranian Prison―Solitary Confinement, a Sham Trial, High-Stakes Diplomacy, and the Extraordinary Efforts It Took to Get Me Out (2019)
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This month, the National Constitution Center convened the 2024 National First Amendment Summit, in partnership with FIRE and NYU’s First Amendment Watch. America’s leading legal thinkers joined for a vigorous discussion on the state of free speech in America and around the globe. “Free Speech on Campus Today” features Mary Anne Franks, author of the new book Fearless Speech: Breaking Free from the First Amendment; FIRE’s Vice President of Campus Advocacy Alex Morey; and Keith Whittington, author of You Can't Teach That!: The Battle over University Classrooms. “Free Speech In and Out of the Courts” features Nadine Strossen, author of Free Speech: What Everyone Needs to Know; Jonathan Turley, author of the new book The Indispensable Right: Free Speech in an Age of Rage; and Kenji Yoshino of NYU School of Law and Meta's Oversight Board.
Resources:
2024 National First Amendment Summit
FIRE: Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression
NYU’s First Amendment Watch
Mary Ann Franks, Fearless Speech: Breaking Free from the First Amendment (2024)
Keith Whittington, You Can’t Teach That!: The Battle over University Classrooms (2024)
Nadine Strossen, Free Speech: What Everyone Needs to Know (2023)
Jonathan Turley, The Indispensable Right: Free Speech in an Age of Rage (2024)
Meta Oversight Board
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David Greenberg’s new biography, John Lewis: A Life, chronicles the remarkable story of the civil rights activist and congressman. Professor Kenneth Mack of Harvard University joins Greenberg for a discussion of Lewis’ life and impact on American history, whose heroism during the Civil Rights Movement helped inspire America’s new birth of freedom. Lana Ulrich, vice president of content and senior counsel at the National Constitution Center, moderates.
Additional Resources
2016 Liberty Medal Ceremony in honor of Representative John Lewis
David Greenberg, John Lewis: A Life (2024)
“Rep. John Lewis on MLK and ‘Good Trouble,’” Live at the National Constitution Center podcast (Jan. 2020)
Boynton v. Virginia (1960)
Civil Rights Era documents selected by Kenneth Mack and Christopher Brooks, NCC Founders’ Library
Kenneth Mack, Representing the Race: The Creation of the Civil Rights Lawyer (2012)
Brown v. Board of Education (1954)
Bayard Rustin, “From Protest to Politics: The Future of the Civil Rights Movement”
Voting Rights Act (1965)
John Lewis, Remarks at the opening of the National Museum of African American History and Culture (2016)
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Stanford University professor Jonathan Gienapp, author of the new book, Against Constitutional Originalism: A Historical Critique, is joined by Stephen Sachs of Harvard Law School to discuss Gienapp’s challenge to originalists’ unspoken assumptions about the Constitution, the history of originalism as a constitutional methodology, and its role in constitutional interpretation today. Thomas Donnelly, chief content officer at the National Constitution Center, moderates.
Additional Resources
Jonathan Gienapp, “Against Constitutional Originalism: A Historical Critique” (2024)
Stephen Sachs and Will Baude, “Originalism and the Law of the Past” (Law and History Review, 2019)
Michael Stokes Paulsen and Vasen Kesavan, “Is West Virginia Unconstitutional?” (90 Cal L. Rev. 291, 2002)
William Baude, Jud Campbell, and Stephen Sachs, “General Law and the Fourteenth Amendment” (76 Stanford L. Rev 1185, 2024)
Jud Campbell, “Four Views of the Nature of the Union” (47 Harvard J. Law & Public Policy 2, 2024)
Fletcher v. Peck (1810)
District of Columbia v. Heller (2008)
United States v. Rahimi (2024)
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On September 24, 2024 the National Constitution Center held its annual Liberty Medal ceremony honoring America’s storyteller, Ken Burns, for illuminating the nation’s greatest triumphs and tragedies and inspiring all of us to learn about the principles at the heart of the American idea. In this episode, Jeffrey Rosen and Burns’s co-director Sarah Botstein talk about Burns’s life and work, followed by Ken Burns’s inspiring acceptance speech. Burns then sits down with Rosen for a conversation about the American Idea.
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The National Constitution Center’s 2024 Liberty Medal Ceremony
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On September 17, the Honorable Neil M. Gorsuch, associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court and NCC honorary co-chair, and his co-author and former law clerk Janie Nitze, joined Jeffrey Rosen for an America’s Town Hall program in celebration of Constitution Day 2024 and the release of their latest book, Over Ruled: The Human Toll of Too Much Law.
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National Constitution Center: Constitution 101 with Khan Academy
Neil M. Gorsuch and Janie Nitze, Over Ruled: The Human Toll of Too Much Law (2024)
National Constitution Center Classroom resources: Federalism
National Constitution Center Classroom resources: Federalism and the Separation of Powers
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On September 12, 2024, best-selling author, philanthropist, and National Constitution Center Trustee David Rubenstein joined Jeffrey Rosen at the Center in Philadelphia to discuss his new book, The Highest Calling: Conversations on the American Presidency. The book, which features interviews with presidential historians and living U.S. presidents, chronicles the journeys of the leaders who have defined America. They discuss the duties and responsibilities of the presidency, the triumphs and failures of its officeholders, and the future of the role in the twenty-first century.
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David Rubenstein, The Highest Calling: Conversations on the American Presidency (2024)
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International and national security law experts Harold Hongju Koh of Yale Law School, Deborah Pearlstein of Princeton University, and Matthew Waxman of Columbia Law School join for a conversation to explore Trump v, United States and the updated edition of Koh’s landmark book, The National Security Constitution in the Twenty-First Century. Jeffrey Rosen, president and CEO of the National Constitution Center, moderates.
Resources:
Harold Koh, “The National Security Constitution in the Twenty-First Century”
Trump v. United States (2024)
Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo (2024)
United States v. Curtiss-Wright Export Corp. (1936)
Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. v. Sawyer (Steel Seizure Case) (1952)
The Pacificus-Helvidius Debates of 1793-1794
Deborah Pearlstein, “Lawyering the Presidency,” The Georgetown Law Journal (2022)
Deborah Pearlstein, “The Executive Branch Anticanon,” Fordham Law Review (2020)
Matthew C. Waxman, “War Powers Reform: A Skeptical View”
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Political theorist William B. Allen, editor and translator of a new edition of Montesquieu’s The Spirit of the Laws, and Alison LaCroix, author of The Interbellum Constitution: Union, Commerce, and Slavery in the Age of Federalisms, explored the intellectual foundations—from Montesquieu and beyond—of the U.S. constitutional vision and core values from America’s founding through the Civil War. The discussion was moderated by Jeffrey Rosen, president and CEO of the National Constitution Center.
Resources:
Alison LaCroix, The Interbellum Constitution: Union, Commerce, and Slavery in the Age of Federalisms, 2024
Montesquieu, ‘The Spirit of the Laws’: A Critical Edition, edited and translated by W. B. Allen, 2024
The Commerce Clause
Alison LaCroix, “James Madison v. Originalism,” Project Syndicate (Aug. 26, 2022)
10th Amendment
Andrew Jackson, Proclamation Regarding Nullification, (December 10, 1832)
Martin v. Hunter's Lessee, (1816)
Preamble to the Constitution
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In celebration of Juneteenth, political commentator Eddie Glaude Jr. discusses his newest book, We Are the Leaders We Have Been Looking For that explores how ordinary people, through the examples of leading Black Americans Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X, and Ella Baker, have the capacity to achieve a more just and perfect democracy. Thomas Donnelly, chief content officer at the National Constitution Center, hosts the discussion.
Resources:
Eddie S. Glaude Jr., We Are the Leaders We Have Been Looking For, (2024)
Juneteenth
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Political analyst Yuval Levin, author of American Covenant: How the Constitution Unified Our Nation—and Could Again, and scholar Aziz Rana, author of The Constitutional Bind: How Americans Came to Idolize a Document That Fails Them, discuss the Constitution as America’s religion and its role in fostering the American dream. Rosen, president and CEO of the National Constitution Center, moderates.
Resources:
Yuval Levin, American Covenant: How the Constitution Unified Our Nation―and Could Again, (2024)
Aziz Rana, The Constitutional Bind: How Americans Came to Idolize a Document That Fails Them (2024)
“The Modern History of Originalism,” We the People Podcast (Aug. 3, 2023)
Article V, Interactive Constitution
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Steven Hahn, author of Illiberal America: A History, and Manisha Sinha, author of The Rise and Fall of the Second American Republic: Reconstruction, 1860–1920, explored America’s historical encounters with illiberalism and its relevance to contemporary challenges confronting American democracy today. Thomas Donnelly, chief content officer at the National Constitution Center, moderated the conversation.
Resources
Steven Hahn, Illiberal America: A History (2024)
Manisha Sinha, The Rise and Fall of the Second American Republic: Reconstruction, 1860-1920 (2024)
Abraham Lincoln, “ "Speech to the Young Men’s Lyceum of Springfield” (1838), Founders’ Library
13th Amendment, Interactive Constitution
Fugitive Slave Act of 1850, Founders’ Library
Steven Hahn, The Roots of Southern Populism: Yeoman Farmers and the Transformation of the Georgia Upcountry, 1850-1890 (1985)
Marcia Coyle, “The U.S. Supreme Court Cases Built on a ‘Rotten Foundation’,” Constitution Daily (May 2022)
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Tech policy experts Mark Coeckelbergh, author of the new book Why AI Undermines Democracy and What To Do About It, Mary Anne Franks of George Washington University Law School, and Marc Rotenberg of the Center for AI and Digital Policy explored the evolving relationship between artificial intelligence and constitutional principles and suggest strategies to protect democratic values in the digital age. This conversation was moderated by Thomas Donnelly, chief content officer at the National Constitution Center.
This program was made possible through the generous support of Citizen Travelers, the nonpartisan civic engagement initiative of Travelers.
Resources:
Mark Coeckelbergh, Why AI Undermines Democracy and What To Do About It (2024)
Center for AI and Digital Policy (CAIDP), “Universal Guidelines for AI”
CAIDP, “Artificial Intelligence and Democratic Values”
Mary Anne Franks, Fearless Speech: Breaking Free from the First Amendment, (forthcoming Oct. 2024)
“Tougher AI Policies Could Protect Taylor Swift—And Everyone Else—From Deepfakes,” Scientific American (Feb. 8, 2024)
Marc Rotenberg, “Human Rights Alignment: The Challenge Ahead for AI Lawmakers,” (Dec. 2023)
EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), https://gdpr-info.eu/
“U.S. Senate Will Debate Three Bipartisan Bills Addressing the Use of AI in Elections,” Democracy Docket (May 14, 2024)
OECD Principles on AI
Marc Rotenberg, “The Imperative for a UN Special Rapporteur on AI and Human Rights,” Vol. 1 (2024)
Mark Coeckelbergh, “The case for global governance of AI: arguments, counter-arguments, and challenges ahead,” (May 2024)
Bipartisan Senate AI Working Group Report
Council of Europe and AI
Council of Europe AI Treaty
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A.J. Jacobs, author of The Year of Living Constitutionally: One Man’s Humble Quest to Follow the Constitution’s Original Meaning, in conversation with NCC President and CEO Jeffrey Rosen, author of the new book The Pursuit of Happiness: How Classical Writers on Virtue Inspired the Lives of the Founders and Defined America. Listen to their discussion on what it means to live constitutionally today.
Resources:
A.J. Jacobs, The Year of Living Constitutionally: One Man's Humble Quest to Follow the Constitution’s Original Meaning (2024)
"Colonial America" fashion, Brittanica
Jonathan Gienapp, The Second Creation: Fixing the American Constitution in the Founding Era (2018)
Jud Campbell, “What Did the First Amendment Originally Mean?,” University of Richmond (2018)
Texas v. Johnson (1989)
NCC's We the People podcast, "The Modern History of Originalism," (August 2023)
NCC's We the People podcast, "What the Supreme Court's Opinion in NYSRPA v. Bruen Means for the Second Amendment," (August 2022)
"How a college term paper led to a constitutional amendment," Constitution Daily blog, (May 7, 2024)
NCC's Constitution Drafting Project
Walter Isaacson, Benjamin Franklin: A Life, (2004)
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As Meta surpassed 2 billion users in 2019, the company created an independent oversight board to review appeals of controversial decisions involving content moderation. Members of Meta’s Oversight Board Michael McConnell of Stanford Law School and Kenji Yoshino of New York University School of Law discuss the board’s recent work, including its efforts to ensure free and fair elections in advance of the 2024 presidential election. Jeffrey Rosen, president and CEO of the National Constitution Center, moderates.
This program is made possible through the generous support of Citizen Travelers, the nonpartisan civic engagement initiative of Travelers.
Additional Resources
Meta Oversight Board
Former President Trump's suspension, Meta Oversight Board decision (2021)
Meet the Board
Brazilian general's speech, Meta Oversight Board decision (2023)
Altered Video of President Biden, Meta Oversight Board decision (2023)
Oversight Board Announces New Cases on Israel-Hamas Conflict for Expedited Review (Dec. 2023)
United States posts discussing abortion, Meta Oversight Board decision, (2023)
Referring to Designated Dangerous Individuals as “Shaheed”, Meta Oversight Board decision, (2023)
Cambodian prime minister, Meta Oversight Board decision (2023)
Reporting on Pakistani Parliament Speech, Meta Oversight Board decision (2023)
How to Appeal to the Oversight Board
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Michael Gerhardt, author of the new book FDR’s Mentors: Navigating the Path to Greatness, and Andrew Busch, author of Reagan's Victory: The Presidential Election of 1980 and the Rise of the Right, join Jeffrey Rosen to explore the pivotal elections of 1932 and 1980. They compare the transformative presidencies of Franklin D. Roosevelt and Ronald Reagan, and trace how founding-era debates between Hamilton and Jefferson over the scope of federal and executive power re-emerged during the New Deal and Reagan Revolution. This program originally streamed live on April 16, 2024.
Resources:
Michael J. Gerhardt, FDR’s Mentors: Navigating the Path to Greatness (2024)
Andrew E. Busch, Ronald Reagan and the Politics of Freedom (2001)
Andrew E. Busch, Reagan's Victory: The Presidential Election of 1980 and the Rise of the Right (2005)
Andrew E. Busch, The Constitution on the Campaign Trail: The Surprising Political Career of America’s Founding Document (2007)
Friedrich Hayek, “The Road to Serfdom,” Teaching American History (May 21, 2020)
Ronald Reagan, Remarks to Commonwealth Club members on March 4, 1983, Reagan Library (July 19, 2018)
Franklin D. Roosevelt, Undelivered Address Prepared for Jefferson Day, The American Presidency Project
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