The American History Podcast, season five, episode four, The Two Constitutions.

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I know that's a mouthful. But all right, enough of that. Over the past three episodes, we've traced how American political discourse became weaponized,

how both parties learned to delegitimize elections, and how political violence gets selectively remembered based on partisan narratives.

Today, we're going deeper to the fundamental constitutional transformation that created many of these problems in the first place. Now, many Americans believe that we live under one constitution, the document written in 1787, amended 27 times, and interpreted by courts for over two centuries. But according to historian Christopher

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