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Restoring the Guardrails of Democracy
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07/13/22 • 56 min
As January 6 hearings proceed on Capitol Hill, join the National Constitution Center for the launch of the Restoring the Guardrails of Democracy team reports. The project brings together three teams of leading experts— libertarian, progressive, and conservative—to identify institutional, legal, and technological reforms that might address current threats to American democracy. Team leaders Edward B. Foley, Sarah Isgur, and Clark Neily discuss their proposals. Jeffrey Rosen, president and CEO of the National Constitution Center, moderates.
Read the reports:
- Sarah Isgur, David French, and Jonah Goldberg, Restoring the Guardrails of Democracy: Team Conservative
- Edward B. Foley and Franita Tolson, Restoring the Guardrails of Democracy: Team Progressive
- Clark Neily, Walter Olson, and Ilya Somin, Restoring the Guardrails of Democracy: Team Libertarian
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Oligarchies, Monopolies, and the Constitution
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07/27/22 • 57 min
Is the Constitution “anti-oligarchy”? What does it say about monopolies and antitrust? Legal experts Joseph Fishkin and William E. Forbath, co-authors of The Anti-Oligarchy Constitution, join law professor Katharine Jackson of the University of Dayton School of Law, and Adam White of the American Enterprise Institute, for a conversation moderated by Jeffrey Rosen, president and CEO of the National Constitution Center.
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The Battle for the American West
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11/16/22 • 58 min
For Native American Heritage Month, the National Constitution Center presents a discussion with historians H.W. Brands, author of The Last Campaign: Sherman, Geronimo and the War for America; Lori Daggar, author of Cultivating Empire: Capitalism, Philanthropy, and the Negotiation of American Imperialism in Indian Country; and Lindsay Robertson, author of Conquest by Law: How the Discovery of America Dispossessed Indigenous Peoples of Their Lands, for a historical overview of U.S. westward expansion, manifest destiny, and the impact on native peoples and tribes. Jeffrey Rosen, president and CEO of the National Constitution Center, moderates.
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Justice William O. Douglas: Public Advocate and Conservation Champion
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11/29/22 • 55 min
The Honorable Jeffrey Sutton, chief judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, joins the Honorable M. Margaret McKeown, senior judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, for a discussion on McKeown’s new book, Citizen Justice: The Environmental Legacy of William O. Douglas—Public Advocate and Conservation Champion, and the constitutional legacy of U.S. Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas, one of the court’s longest serving justices. Jeffrey Rosen, president and CEO of the National Constitution Center, moderates.
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FDR and the Transformation of the Supreme Court
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12/14/22 • 57 min
This month, we hosted a conversation about FDR and the Transformation of the Supreme Court. Legal historian Laura Kalman, author of FDR’s Gambit: The Court Packing Fight and the Rise of Legal Liberalism; Ken Kersch, professor of political science at Boston College and author of Conservatives and the Constitution; and Jeff Shesol, author of Supreme Power: Franklin Roosevelt vs. the Supreme Court, joined Jeffrey Rosen to discuss Franklin D. Roosevelt’s constitutional legacy, the court packing fight, and how his Supreme Court appointees transformed America.
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Native Peoples and Redefining U.S. History
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11/07/23 • 58 min
Historians Ned Blackhawk and Brenda Child join for a conversation on Blackhawk’s national bestseller, The Rediscovery of America: Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U.S. History—a sweeping retelling of American history. They explore five centuries of U.S. history to shed light on the central role Indigenous peoples have played in shaping our nation’s narrative. Jeffrey Rosen, president and CEO of the National Constitution Center, moderates.
Additional Resources
- Ned Blackhawk, The Rediscovery of America: Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U.S. History
- The Declaration of Independence
- Pontiac’s War
- Brenda Child, Away From Home: American Indian Boarding School Experiences, 1879-2000
- Brenda Child, Boarding School Seasons: American Indian Families, 1900-1940
- Claudio Saunt, Unworthy Republic: The Dispossession of Native Americans and the Road to Indian Territory
- Jeffrey Ostler, Surviving Genocide: Native Nations and the United States from the American Revolution to Bleeding Kansas
- Articles of Confederation
- Naturalization Act 1790
- Dred Scott v. Sandford (1857)
- Eric Foner, The Second Founding: How the Civil War and Reconstruction Remade the Constitution
- Ned Blackhawk, Violence over the Land: Indians and Empires in the early American West
- Brenda Child, Holding Our World Together: Ojibwe Women and the Survival of Community
- Brenda Child, My Grandfather's Knocking Sticks: Ojibwe Family Life and Labor on the Reservation
- Brenda Child and Brian Klopotek, Indian Subjects: Hemispheric Perspectives on the History of Indigenous Education
- Michael Witgen, Seeing Red: Indigenous Land, American Expansion, and the Political Economy of Plunder in North America
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What the Black Intellectual Tradition Can Teach Us About Democracy
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11/21/23 • 65 min
New York Times columnist Jamelle Bouie and political scientist Melvin Rogers, author of The Darkened Light of Faith: Race, Democracy, and Freedom in African American Political Thought, explore the ways key African American intellectuals and artists—from David Walker, Frederick Douglass, and W.E.B. Du Bois to Billie Holiday and James Baldwin—reimagined U.S. democracy. Thomas Donnelly, chief content officer at the National Constitution Center, moderates.
Additional Resources
- Melvin Rogers, The Darkened Light of Faith: Race, Democracy, and Freedom in African American Political Thought
- Melvin Rogers, The Undiscovered Dewey: Religion, Morality, and the Ethos of Democracy
- Kate Masur, Until Justice Be Done: America's First Civil Rights Movement, from the Revolution to Reconstruction
- Jamelle Bouie, “How Black Political Thought Shapes My Work”, New York Times
- David Walker
- David Walker, Appeal to the Colored Citizens of the World (1829)
- Jamelle Bouie, “Why I Keep Coming Back to Reconstruction”, New York Times
- Martin Delany
- Jamelle Bouie, “What Frederick Douglass Knew that Trump and DeSantis Don’t”, New York Times
- Jamelle Bouie, “The Deadly History of ‘They’re Raping Our Women'”, Slate
- W.E.B. Dubois, The Souls of Black Folk
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The Taft Court: Making Law for a Divided Nation
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12/12/23 • 58 min
Robert Post, Sterling Professor of Law at Yale Law School, delves into the highly anticipated volumes from the Oliver Wendell Holmes Devise History of the Supreme Court, The Taft Court Making Law for a Divided Nation, 1921–1930. Post explores the history of the Taft Court and the contrasting constitutional approaches among its justices, including Louis Brandeis and Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., among others. Jeffrey Rosen, president and CEO of the National Constitution Center, moderates.
Additional Resources
- Robert Post, The Taft Court: Making Law for a Divided Nation, 1921–1930
- Meyer v. Nebraska, 262 U.S. 390 (1923)
- Chas. Wolff Packing Co. v. Court of Ind. Relations, 262 U.S. 522 (1923)
- Whitney v. California (1927)
- Brandenburg v. Ohio (1969)
- Gitlow v. New York (1925)
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David Hume and the Ideas That Shaped America
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01/30/24 • 59 min
Called “a degenerate son of science” by Thomas Jefferson and a “bungling lawgiver” by James Madison, Scottish philosopher David Hume was cited so often at the Constitutional Convention that delegates seemed to have committed his essays to memory. Join Angela Coventry, author of Hume: A Guide for the Perplexed; Dennis Rasmussen, author of The Infidel and the Professor: David Hume, Adam Smith, and the Friendship That Shaped Modern Thought; and Aaron Alexander Zubia, author of The Political Thought of David Hume as they discuss Hume’s philosophical legacy and its profound impact on the shaping of America. Jeffrey Rosen, president and CEO of the National Constitution Center, moderates.
Additional Resources
National Constitution Center Town Hall program, Montesquieu and the Constitution
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The United Kingdom and the United States: A Constitutional Dialogue
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05/25/22 • 60 min
Richard Albert of the University of Texas at Austin, Nicholas Cole of the University of Oxford, and Alison Lacroix of the University of Chicago Law School compare the legal systems of the United States and the United Kingdom, including the ways both countries have influenced each other’s constitutional and political structures over time, from the COVID-19 pandemic to rising threats to democracy around the world. Lana Ulrich, senior director of content at the National Constitution, moderates.
The program is presented in partnership with the University of Oxford.
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How many episodes does Live at the National Constitution Center have?
Live at the National Constitution Center currently has 234 episodes available.
What topics does Live at the National Constitution Center cover?
The podcast is about News, History and Podcasts.
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The episode title 'Ken Starr: A Memoir of the Clinton Investigation' is the most popular.
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The average episode length on Live at the National Constitution Center is 59 minutes.
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Episodes of Live at the National Constitution Center are typically released every 7 days.
When was the first episode of Live at the National Constitution Center?
The first episode of Live at the National Constitution Center was released on Oct 22, 2018.
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