We the People

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  • A weekly show of constitutional debate hosted by National Constitution Center President and CEO Jeffrey Rosen where listeners can hear the best arguments on all sides of the constitutional issues at the center of American life.
    © 2024 National Constitution Center. All Rights Reserved.
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  • Native Americans and the Supreme Court

    Native Americans and the Supreme Court
    Nov 7 2024
    In celebration of Native American History Month, Jeffrey Rosen was joined by Keith Richotte Jr., author of the forthcoming book The Worst Trickster Story Ever Told: Native America, the Supreme Court, and the U.S. Constitution and Matthew L.M. Fletcher, author of The Ghost Road: Anishinaabe Responses to Indian Hating to explore how Native American law has evolved from the Marshall Court to the present day—tracing how the Court came to grant the federal government broad authority over tribal affairs, and how tribes have begun to reassert their sovereignty under the Roberts Court. This program was originally streamed live as part of the NCC’s America’s Town Hall series on November 4, 2024. Resources: Keith Richotte Jr., The Worst Trickster Story Ever Told: Native America, the Supreme Court, and the U.S. Constitution (2025) Matthew Fletcher, The Ghost Road: Ashinaabe Responses to Indian Hating (2020) Matthew Fletcher, “Muskrat Textualism,” Northwestern Law Review (2022) Matthew Fletcher, “The Dark Matter of Indian Law: The Duty of Protection” (June 2023) Stay Connected and Learn More Questions or comments about the show? Email us at podcasts@constitutioncenter.org Continue the conversation by following us on social media @ConstitutionCtr. Sign up to receive Constitution Weekly, our email roundup of constitutional news and debate. Subscribe, rate, and review wherever you listen. Join us for an upcoming live program or watch recordings on YouTube. Support our important work. Donate
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    58 mins
  • How Should We Elect the President?

    How Should We Elect the President?
    Oct 31 2024
    On the eve of the 2024 presidential election, Jesse Wegman, member of The New York Times editorial board and author of Let the People Pick the President: The Case for Abolishing the Electoral College, and Robert Hardaway, professor at the University of Denver Sturm College of Law and author of Saving the Electoral College: Why the National Popular Vote Would Undermine Democracy, join Jeffrey Rosen to debate the Electoral College and preview potential legal challenges that might arise in the aftermath of the election. This program was originally streamed live as part of the NCC’s America’s Town Hall series on October 29, 2024. Resources: Robert Hardaway, Saving the Electoral College Why the National Popular Vote Would Undermine Democracy (2019) Jesse Wegman, Let the People Pick the President: The Case for Abolishing the Electoral College (2020) Electoral College, Article II, Section 1, Clauses 2 and 3, Interactive Constitution National Popular Vote Ranked Choice Voting Article I, Section III, The Senate, Interactive Constitution Cass Sunstein, “On Jan. 6, Will Vice President Harris Certify the Election?,” Wall Street Journal, Oct. 25, 2024 Gary Lawson and Jack Beerman, “Congressional Meddling In Presidential Elections: Still Unconstitutional After All These Years; A Comment On Sunstein,” April 2023 “The Very Real Scenario Where Trump Loses and Takes Power Anyway,” Politico, Oct. 20, 2024 Moore v. Harper (2023) Stay Connected and Learn More Questions or comments about the show? Email us at podcasts@constitutioncenter.org Continue the conversation by following us on social media @ConstitutionCtr. Sign up to receive Constitution Weekly, our email roundup of constitutional news and debate. Subscribe, rate, and review wherever you listen. Join us for an upcoming live program or watch recordings on YouTube. Support our important work. Donate
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    59 mins
  • The NCC’s 2024 National First Amendment Summit

    The NCC’s 2024 National First Amendment Summit
    Oct 24 2024
    This week, the National Constitution Center convened the 2024 National First Amendment Summit, in partnership with FIRE and NYU’s First Amendment Watch. America’s leading legal thinkers joined for a vigorous discussion on the state of free speech in America and around the globe. “Free Speech on Campus Today” features Mary Anne Franks, author of the new book Fearless Speech: Breaking Free from the First Amendment; FIRE’s Vice President of Campus Advocacy Alex Morey; and Keith Whittington, author of You Can't Teach That!: The Battle over University Classrooms. “Free Speech In and Out of the Courts” features Nadine Strossen, author of Free Speech: What Everyone Needs to Know; Jonathan Turley, author of the new book The Indispensable Right: Free Speech in an Age of Rage; and Kenji Yoshino of NYU School of Law and Meta's Oversight Board. Resources: 2024 National First Amendment Summit FIRE: Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression NYU’s First Amendment Watch Mary Ann Franks, Fearless Speech: Breaking Free from the First Amendment (2024) Keith Whittington, You Can’t Teach That!: The Battle over University Classrooms (2024) Nadine Strossen, Free Speech: What Everyone Needs to Know (2023) Jonathan Turley, The Indispensable Right: Free Speech in an Age of Rage (2024) Meta Oversight Board Stay Connected and Learn More Questions or comments about the show? Email us at podcasts@constitutioncenter.org Continue the conversation by following us on social media @ConstitutionCtr. Sign up to receive Constitution Weekly, our email roundup of constitutional news and debate. Subscribe, rate, and review wherever you listen. Join us for an upcoming live program or watch recordings on YouTube. Support our important work. Donate
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    1 hr and 28 mins

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