Constitutional
The Washington Post
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 “Presidential,” reporter Lillian Cunningham returns with this series exploring the Constitution and the people who framed and reframed it — revolutionaries, abolitionists, suffragists, teetotalers, protesters, justices, presidents – in the ongoing struggle to form a more perfect union across a vast and diverse land.
Episodes
Introducing Moonrise
Jul 19 2019 • 0 MIN
Host Lillian Cunningham's next podcast explores the real story of why we went to the moon -- a darker, but truer story than the one you've heard before. Listen to this trailer, and subscribe on you...
Ourselves and our posterity
Feb 12 2018 • 0 MIN
In the "Constitutional" finale, we address listener questions about the history--and future--of the nation's governing document.
The First Amendment
Jan 29 2018 • 0 MIN
Why do First Amendment rights trump nearly every other right in America? Thank Jehovah's Witnesses.
Privacy
Jan 15 2018 • 0 MIN
How should the Constitution's privacy protections be translated for a new era? This is a question before the Supreme Court today, but it was also a question that captivated a justice appointed to t...
Prohibition
Jan 1 2018 • 0 MIN
The passage and then repeal of the 18th Amendment, banning alcohol in America, highlighted the pitfalls of trying to legislate against vice.
Taxes
Dec 18 2017 • 0 MIN
Congress today faces the same question it faced a century ago when creating the modern tax system: What kind of society should America be?
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