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Ancestry
Ancestry
In 1879, a case involving Chief Standing Bear came before a Nebraska courtroom and demanded an answer to the question: A... Read more
7 Aug 2017
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40mins
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Framed
Framed
In the premier episode of “Constitutional,” we go back in time to that hot Philadelphia summer in 1787 when a group of r... Read more
24 Jul 2017
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1hr 3mins
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Nationality
Nationality
What makes someone American? A landmark Supreme Court case in 1898, involving a child born in San Francisco to Chinese i... Read more
14 Aug 2017
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47mins
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Race
Race
As powerful as it was to change the Constitution after the Civil War, and enshrine racial equality into our governing do... Read more
21 Aug 2017
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51mins
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Gender
Gender
From the American Revolution through today, women have been leading a long-burning rebellion to gain rights not original... Read more
28 Aug 2017
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48mins
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Senate and states
Senate and states
When the United States changed its process for electing senators, did that lead to a decline in state power? Or did it i... Read more
11 Sep 2017
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45mins
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Congress and citizens
Congress and citizens
Is it a feature or a bug of the amendment process that an idea of James Madison's, more than 200 years ago, could be rec... Read more
25 Sep 2017
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38mins
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Fair trials
Fair trials
In 1963, the Supreme Court ruled in Gideon v. Wainwright that states must offer a defense attorney to all poor people ac... Read more
9 Oct 2017
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46mins
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Introducing 'Constitutional'
Introducing 'Constitutional'
Preview The Washington Post's newest podcast, a narrative series about the revolutionary figures who shaped America's st... Read more
29 Jun 2017
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4mins
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Fair punishment
Fair punishment
"There is so much feeling of racial injustice around the issue of punishment. And you have to understand that those feel... Read more
23 Oct 2017
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51mins