A new look at America's founding

We the People

National Constitution Center

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🗓️ 5 January 2017

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Michael Klarman of Harvard Law School and Patrick Spero of the American Philosophical Society reassess the debates that defined the Founding era. This program was presented live at the Constitution Center on November 14, 2016. You can watch the program on Constitution Daily or at constitutioncenter.org. Get the latest constitutional news, and continue the conversation, on Facebook and Twitter. We want to know what you think of the podcast. Email us at [email protected]. Please subscribe to We the Peopleand our companion podcast,Live at America’s Town Hall, on iTunes, Stitcher, or your favorite podcast app. We the People is a member of Slate’s Panoply network. Check out the full roster at Panoply.fm. Despite our congressional charter, the National Constitution Center is a private nonprofit; we receive little government support, and we rely on the generosity of people around the country who are inspired by our nonpartisan mission of constitutional debate and education. Please consider becoming a member to support our work, including this podcast. Visit constitutioncenter.org to learn more. This show was engineered by Kevin Kilbourne and David Stotz, and edited by Jason Gregory. It was produced by Nicandro Iannacci. Research was provided by Lana Ulrich and Tom Donnelly. The host of We the People is Jeffrey Rosen.

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0:00.0	I'm Nekandra Yanachi, producer of We The People, a weekly show of constitutional debate.
0:09.2	Jeffrey Rosen is away this week.
0:12.1	As you know, the National Constitution Center is the only institution in America
0:16.9	chartered by Congress to disseminate information about the U.S. Constitution
0:21.6	on a nonpartisan basis.
0:24.0	In the last two weeks, we've been featuring some of the best programs held this fall at the
0:28.6	Constitution Center across from Independence Hall in Philadelphia.
0:33.2	This week we conclude that review
0:35.2	with a conversation with two historians
0:37.8	about new perspectives on the American Revolution
0:40.7	and the founding era.
0:42.4	You'll hear from Michael Clarmon, Harvard Law Professor, and author of the new book The Framers
0:47.0	Koo, and Patrick Spiro, librarian of the American Philosophical Society,
0:52.0	an editor of the new Philosophical Society,
0:52.8	and editor of the new book, The American Revolution,
0:55.8	Reborn.
0:57.4	Here's Tom Donnelly, the Constitution Center's
1:00.1	Senior Fellow in Constitutional Studies to get us started.
1:05.2	So as I said, what we're going to talk about today, we're going to try to talk about
1:08.0	rethinking and refashioning America's founding. And Patrick, with that that in mind I'd love to start with you and so just can we just place on the table what is the what do you take to be the traditional narrative that what most Americans think about the American Revolution, what's sort of the story that we tell ourselves about?
1:26.2	Sure, I think we all know this story really well. It begins in 1765 with the Stamp Act, the Stamp Act crisis, the colonies coming together for the first time to announce
1:37.9	their opposition to this imperial policy.
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