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Jill Lepore with Peter Sagal: We the People
At a time when many Americans believe the U.S. Constitution to be under threat — but disagree about the nature of that threat — bestselling author and Harvard professor Jill Lepore joins NPR host and civics enthusiast Peter Sagal to ask: Can this Constitution be saved? In We the People, her new history of the Constitution, Lepore argues that the Framers never intended for the Constitution to remain untouched, but rather expected that future generations would be forever tinkering with it and improving the machinery of government. Together, Lepore and Sagal examine the history of our Constitution, as written, as amended and unchanged, and as interpreted and misinterpreted. Are Americans trapped, enthralled, by a Constitution that no longer works? “We must disenthrall ourselves, and then we shall save our country,” Lincoln said, in the midst of the Civil War. What would it mean for Americans to disenthrall themselves today?
Part of The Sagal Sessions on the U.S. Constitution
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