Ep. 265 | Constitutional Chats Podcast | William Reddinger | Demystifying the Constitutional Amendment Process and Its Checks and Balances

It's a year after the Battles of Lexington and Concord and only days before the Declaration of Independence would be signed. It's June 1776 and along the shores of South Carolina, British troops are a...

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Did you know two years after Paul Revere's famous ride, there was a second ride made by a teenaged woman?  That's right. On April 26, 1777, 16-year old Sybil Ludington rode 40 miles throughout the nig...

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The story of Elizabeth "Mumbet" is inspirational.  Born into slavery in New York in 1744, she spent most of her life in Massachusetts.  Following the ratification of the new Massachusetts Constitution...

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Regular followers of Constituting America know we view the Declaration of Independence as one of the greatest documents ever written.  An interesting point to ponder is that it had to come from somewh...

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The American Revolution obviously changed the course of American History.  That's a given.  Have you ever contemplated how that singular event changed the course of world history over the ensuing cent...

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As a teenager, he dropped out of college and served in the in the 3rd Virginia Regiment in the Continental Army.  After studying law under Thomas Jefferson, he later served in the Virginia House of De...

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Every now and then a government does something that goes just a bit too far and causes the people to protest.  One such example was the British imposition of the Stamp Act on the American Colonies.  W...

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Statesman.  Author.  President of the United States.  Perhaps no one's words best embodied the ethos of the Founding Fathers quite like Thomas Jefferson.  At Constituting America, we feel what he wrot...

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