Constitutional

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With the writing of the Constitution in 1787, the framers set out a young nation’s highest ideals. And ever since, we’ve been fighting over it — what is in it and what was left out. At the heart of these arguments is the story of America. As a follow-up to the popular Washington Post podcast “Presidential,” reporter Lillian Cunningham returns with this series exploring the Constitution and the people who framed and reframed it — revolutionaries, abolitionists, suffragists, teetotalers, protesters, justices, presidents – in the ongoing struggle to form a more perfect union across a vast and diverse land.

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Privacy

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01/15/18 • 45 min

How should the Constitution's privacy protections be translated for a new era? This is a question before the Supreme Court today, but it was also a question that captivated a justice appointed to the Supreme Court 100 years ago — Louis Brandeis.

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The First Amendment

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01/29/18 • 52 min

Why do First Amendment rights trump nearly every other right in America? Thank Jehovah's Witnesses.

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Prohibition

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01/01/18 • 53 min

The passage and then repeal of the 18th Amendment, banning alcohol in America, highlighted the pitfalls of trying to legislate against vice.

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Ourselves and our posterity

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02/12/18 • 54 min

In the "Constitutional" finale, we address listener questions about the history--and future--of the nation's governing document.

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War

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11/20/17 • 41 min

What was the original point of the Second Amendment? We examine its colonial and revolutionary roots—plus its quiet companion, the Third Amendment—with renowned American history scholar Gordon Wood.

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Taxes

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12/18/17 • 42 min

Congress today faces the same question it faced a century ago when creating the modern tax system: What kind of society should America be?

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Love

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11/06/17 • 38 min

The words "marriage" and "love" appear nowhere in the U.S. Constitution. Yet 50 years ago, the Supreme Court issued a decision that would embed those concepts in the heart of the document itself.

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Fair punishment

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10/23/17 • 51 min

"There is so much feeling of racial injustice around the issue of punishment. And you have to understand that those feelings have a history -- and that history is Parchman Farm."

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Congress and citizens

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09/25/17 • 38 min

Is it a feature or a bug of the amendment process that an idea of James Madison's, more than 200 years ago, could be recently resurrected and etched into the U.S. Constitution?

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Senate and states

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09/11/17 • 45 min

When the United States changed its process for electing senators, did that lead to a decline in state power? Or did it instead bring us closer to a "more perfect union"?

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How many episodes does Constitutional have?

Constitutional currently has 23 episodes available.

What topics does Constitutional cover?

The podcast is about History, Podcasts and Government.

What is the most popular episode on Constitutional?

The episode title 'Prohibition' is the most popular.

What is the average episode length on Constitutional?

The average episode length on Constitutional is 38 minutes.

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Episodes of Constitutional are typically released every 14 days.

When was the first episode of Constitutional?

The first episode of Constitutional was released on Jun 29, 2017.

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