These segments are intended not as an exhaustive academic investigation of the U.S. Constitution. Instead, think of them as intellectual “appetizers” that whet the appetite to learn more about the most significant societal foundation document in all of history.
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Episode 138 - The Titles of Nobility Amendment
Episode 9: Representation of Whom?
Episode 8: Ben Franklin's Compromise
Episode 7: Sweltering Debate
Episode 90 - 17th Amendment (Encore)
Episode 4: The Virginia Plan
Episode 137 - Adequate to the Exigencies
Episode 87 - The Dred Scott Decision
Episode 136 - The Popular Vote
Episode 55: Jun 8, 1789
Episode 89 - Gideon v. Wainwright
The American founders, having suffered the tyranny of an overbearing British Crown, were not fans of strong, centralized government.
Episode 46: The First President
In the early drafts of the enumerated powers set forth in Article 1, Section 8 of the Constitution, the framers vested Congress with the power to "make war."
Episode 96 - 19th Amendment - Women's Suffrage
Episode 94 - Incorporation of the Bill of Rights
Episode 90 - 17th Amendment
Episode 54: Madison Introduces Amendments
Episode 92 - D.C. v. Heller
A bit more than two weeks before the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia came to an end, the delegates voted unanimously to add a phrase to Article I.
Episode 86 - Marbury v. Madison
Episode 42: If Men Were Angels
Episode 51 - Madison Evolves
Episode 99 - Wickard v. Filburn
Episode 134 - The National Guard
