It's the Brian Laird show on WNYc.

Good morning everyone.

It's the Brian Laird Show on WNYC.

Good morning again everyone.

So let's say you're Samuel Alito, or Clarence Thomas,

or Amy Coney Barrett, your job is Supreme Court

originalist as you try to apply the values of 1789 when the United States

constitutional is written and ratified to every controversy that comes your way in 2024 plus the strictest

interpretation of the 27 amendments that followed. You're not always a

strict constructionist like when Colorado finds that Donald Trump is disqualified from the election there

because he violated the insurrection clause of the Constitution, then maybe you say, oh, Colorado,

don't take it so literally, but usually you're a strict constructionist that's your job.

Well our friend AJ Jacobs went those justices one better.

He decided to live strictly according to the US Constitution in his personal life

for one full year. The result is AJ's latest book, The Year of Living

constitutionally, One Man's H humble quest to follow the Constitution's

original meaning. Now some of you know that AJ has done this kind of thing

before, one of his previous books was the year of living biblically.

Another was, it's all relative in which he set out

to build the ultimate family tree,

showing how every person on earth is related to one another.

I think he established that he and I are 49th cousins or something.

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