Live at the National Constitution Center
Live constitutional conversations and debates featuring leading historians, journalists, scholars, and public officials hosted at the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia and across America. To watch National Constitution Center Town Halls live, check out our schedule of upcoming programs at constitutioncenter.org/townhall. Register through Zoom to ask your constitutional questions in the Q&A or watch live on YouTube at YouTube.com/ConstitutionCenter.
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What the Founders Learned From the Ancients
81 min
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The First Amendment and Artificial Intelligence
Technology and constitutional scholar Jonathan Zittrain and Distinguished Professor of Law at Rutgers Law School Ellen Goodman examine the intersection of the First Amendment and artificial intelligence.
60 min
3
Timothy Sandefur on Proclaiming Liberty: John A...
Timothy Sandefur joins to discuss his new book, Proclaiming Liberty: John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, and the Declaration of Independence.
54 min
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Ilan Wurman on The Constitution of 1789: A New ...
Constitutional scholar Ilan Wurman joins for a conversation on his new book, The Constitution of 1789: A New Introduction.
59 min
5
Civil Discourse and the Supreme Court
Scholars Jonathan Adler, Greg Garre, Katherine Mims Crocker, and Howard Wasserman explore the issue of civil discourse surrounding the Supreme Court
48 min
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The Supreme Court and Executive Power
Scholars Gillian Metzger, Julian Mortenson, and Ilya Somin explore the Supreme Court’s approach to executive power
49 min
7
The Constitution and the Courts at the 250th
Kevin Arlyck on The Nation at Sea, which tells a new story about the federal judiciary, and about the early United States itself.
34 min
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Interpreting the Constitution in the Founding Era
A discussion of the Constitution and the Courts at the 250th anniversary of America’s founding, presented in partnership with the Federal Judicial Center.
56 min
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The Ideas at the Heart of the Declaration and t...
David Blight, Robert P. George, and Annette Gordon-Reed explore the enduring ideas at the core of the Declaration of Independence and the United States Constitution—including equality, liberty, the pursuit of happiness, and government by consent—and examine how those principles have been debated, interpreted, and contested over time.
65 min
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Separation of Powers and the Rule of Law
Three retired federal judges discuss how the separations of powers, federalism, and the rule of law are critical elements of American constitutional democracy that need to be safeguarded.
61 min
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Civic Story Hour with U.S. Supreme Court Justic...
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Neil M. Gorsuch, honorary co-chair of the National Constitution Center, and his co-author and former law clerk Janie Nitze join the Center to discuss their new children’s book, Heroes of 1776: The Story of the Declaration of Independence.
56 min
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Jon Meacham on The Promise of America: Reflecti...
Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and National Constitution Center Semiquincentennial Scholar Jon Meacham joins the Center to discuss The Promise of America: Reflections on Our Enduring Ideals
56 min
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Reflections on Our Enduring Ideals: A Conversat...
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer (Ret.), honorary co-chair of the National Constitution Center, joins to discuss The Promise of America: Reflections on Our Enduring Ideals, a new keepsake volume from the National Constitution Center.
58 min
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Michael Auslin on National Treasure: How the De...
58 min
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Sai Prakash on The Presidential Pardon: The Sho...
Sai Prakash joins to discuss his new book, The Presidential Pardon: The Short Clause with a Long, Troubled History.
59 min
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Sarah Isgur on Last Branch Standing: A Potentia...
Sarah Isgur on Last Branch Standing: A Potentially Surprising, Occasionally Witty Journey Inside Today’s Supreme Court
59 min
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Women and the American Revolution
Acclaimed historians Mary Beth Norton and Rosemarie Zagarri examine how women influenced the political, social, and intellectual currents of the American Revolution
57 min
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Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Women’s Suffrage, and t...
Ellen DuBois and Thomas Donnelly discuss the life, ideas, and legacy of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and the decades-long struggle for women's suffrage.
54 min
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National Constitution Center Book Club: Jon Mea...
60 min
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Thomas Paine and the 250th Anniversary of Commo...
Gary Berton, the president of The Thomas Paine Historical Association, joins Scott Cleary, co-editor of New Directions in Thomas Paine Studies and author of The Field of Imagination: Thomas Paine and Eighteenth-Century Poetry, to discuss the revolutionary life, ideas, and legacy of Thomas Paine in celebration of the 250th anniversary of his famous pamphlet, Common Sense.
57 min
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The Declaration of Independence and the Push fo...
60 min
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The Lost Founder: James Wilson and the Forgotte...
57 min
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William F. Buckley and the History of American ...
Authors Matthew Continetti and Sam Tanenhaus discuss Tanenhaus’s new book, Buckley: The Life and the Revolution That Changed America, and to trace American conservatism’s evolution from the Progressive Era, through the rise of William F. Buckley Jr., to today.
63 min
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The Constitutional Legacy of Justice Robert Jac...
Scholars John Q. Barrett, Gerard Magliocca, and G. Edward White discuss the Justice’s influential concurrence in Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. v. Sawyer, his approach to constitutional interpretation, and the lasting legacy he left on debates over presidential power.
57 min
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Amending the Constitution and the Article V Pro...
Article V Project contributors and constitutional law experts Gerard Magliocca, Sanford Levinson, Michael Rappaport, and Stephen Sachs explore the origins, debates, and ongoing challenges surrounding Article V in this conversation about their new essays.
58 min