
CONSTITUTION USA, From New York to San Francisco, from Missoula, Montana to Tyler, Texas, Host Peter Sagal visits people across America introducing viewers to some of today’s major constitutional debates : free speech in the digital age, same-sex marriage, voting rights, separation of church and state, presidential power in the post-9/11 world, to name just a few, and the fascinating stories of the people they affect every day. And for each contemporary story, Sagal dives into the history behind it and talks to prominent legal scholars, historians and public figures, finding out what the Constitution says, the dramatic historical events and crises that defined the Constitution, and why all this matters.
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Air Date: 2013-05-07
Peter explores the Constitution’s most striking and innovative feature: its resilient brand of federalism. The framer...
Air Date: 2013-05-14
Ask Americans what the Constitution’s most important feature is, and most will say it’s the guarantees of liberty ens...
Air Date: 2013-05-21
The high ideals of the Declaration of Independence that “all men are created equal,” endowed with “unalienable rights...
Air Date: 2013-05-28
In this last episode, Peter travels to Iceland where a few years after the country’s economic collapse, leaders decid...