Ep. 238 | Savannah Eccles Johnston | Checks and Balances in Action: Safeguarding Our Liberties
How do you create limited, but at the same time, strong and effective government? In tackling this problem, our Founders relied on three branches with each branch having strong offensive and defensiv...
17 Jan 202555min
Ep. 237 | Constitutional Chats | Mary Katharine Ham | Has There Been A Free Speech Vibe Shift?
Free speech was so important to our Founders they wrote it into the First Amendment to the Constitution. Over the last decade, we have seen an erosion of free speech support through cancel culture, s...
9 Jan 202556min
Ep. 236 | GianCarlo Canaparo | The Bill of Rights: How It Came About and the Debates That Shaped It
It's 1787. Under the current Articles of Confederation the American experiment is struggling. James Madison knew a new guiding document was needed. Once opposed to a Bill of Rights, it was Madison ...
19 Dec 202455min
Ep. 235 | Constitutional Chats | Kirk Higgins | How To Get Youth Excited About Civic Education & Why
Why does Constituting America do the work we do in educating young people about the U.S. Constitution and our country's founding principles? Think about this. According to our guest, in a spectral a...
13 Dec 202452min
Ep. 237 - The Genius of America: How De Tocqueville Saw Our Future
For our annual online academic study this year, we are taking a journey through our republic with Alexis de Tocqueville's "Democracy in America." It is perhaps the best book ever written about America...
6 Dec 202456min
Ep. 236: The First Amendment on College Campuses
The 1st Amendment recognizes our God-given right to free speech without government restriction. But what is a college student to do when it's their own college suppressing their free speech? What is...
23 Nov 202452min
Ep. 235: Unraveling the Significance of the "Shot Heard 'Round the World"
Picture this: You are a young child growing up in a suburb of Boston. You happen to a big fan of the musical "Hamilton" and through an educational TV show, you learn that the park where you regularl...
14 Nov 202454min
Ep. 234: Special Election Day Live Podcast: Everything You Need to Know About the Electoral College
The electoral college is one of the most important characteristics of our republic, but it is also perhaps the most misunderstood. Every time we vote for President the merit of the electoral college ...
9 Nov 202455min
