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Constitutional

Constitutional

19 Episodes • By The Washington Post • www.washingtonpost.com/podcasts/...
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 “Presi ...more
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Introducing "Broken Doors"
An unusual warrant. A pattern of questionable no-kno... more
Apr 27 2022 4m
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Ourselves and our posterity
In the "Constitutional" finale, we address listener ... more
Feb 12 2018 56m
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The First Amendment
Why do First Amendment rights trump nearly every oth... more
Jan 29 2018 53m
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Privacy
How should the Constitution's privacy protections be... more
Jan 15 2018 46m
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Prohibition
The passage and then repeal of the 18th Amendment, b... more
Jan 1 2018 54m
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Taxes
Congress today faces the same question it faced a ce... more
Dec 18 2017 43m
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The common defense
One intention the framers had when creating the U.S.... more
Dec 4 2017 50m
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War
What was the original point of the Second Amendment?... more
Nov 20 2017 42m
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Love
The words "marriage" and "love" appear nowhere in th... more
Nov 6 2017 40m
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Fair punishment
"There is so much feeling of racial injustice around... more
Oct 23 2017 52m
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Fair trials
In 1963, the Supreme Court ruled in Gideon v. Wainwr... more
Oct 9 2017 47m
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Congress and citizens
Is it a feature or a bug of the amendment process th... more
Sep 25 2017 40m
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Senate and states
When the United States changed its process for elect... more
Sep 11 2017 46m
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Gender
From the American Revolution through today, women ha... more
Aug 28 2017 50m
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Race
As powerful as it was to change the Constitution aft... more
Aug 21 2017 53m
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Nationality
What makes someone American? A landmark Supreme Cour... more
Aug 14 2017 48m
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Ancestry
In 1879, a case involving Chief Standing Bear came b... more
Aug 7 2017 42m
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Framed
In the premier episode of “Constitutional,” we go ba... more
Jul 24 2017 1h 4m
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Introducing 'Constitutional'
Preview The Washington Post's newest podcast, a narr... more
Jun 29 2017 4m
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