Constitution USA with Peter Sagal
Peter Sagal, host of NPR’s "Wait Wait… Don’t Tell Me!" travels across the country to find out where the U.S. Constitution lives, how it works and how it doesn’t… how it unites us as a nation and how it has nearly torn us apart.
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Breathing new life into the traditional civics lesson, Peter Sagal (host of NPR?s ?Wait, Wait ? Don?t Tell Me?) travels across the country on a Harley Davidson to find out where the U.S. Constitution lives, how it works and how it doesn?t; how it unites us as a nation and how it has nearly torn us...
Air date: 05/08/2013
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Ask Americans what the Constitution?s most important feature is and most will say it?s the guarantees of liberty enshrined in the Bill of Rights. In this episode, Sagal explores the history of the Bill of Rights and addresses several stories ? ripped from the headlines ? involving freedom of speech...
Air date: 05/15/2013
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The high ideals of the Declaration of Independence that ?all men are created equal? didn?t make it into the Constitution in 1787. It took three-quarters of a century, and a bloody civil war, before the Fourteenth Amendment of 1868 made equality a constitutional right and gave the federal government...
Air date: 05/22/2013
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