Ready?

I was born ready.

Welcome to advisory opinions. I'm Sarah Isger. That's David French. And do we have a special guest for y'all today? Should I tell you? Or should we just wait until after the break? His new book, Born Equal, coming out September 16th, the day before Constitution Day. I think I've given you quite a few hints right back after

this.

Professor Akeel, Reid, Amar, welcome back to the podcast.

Thank you for having me back.

You know, we had you after your first of this series of books. You're doing three books.

Yes. The Fellowship of the Ring, the Two Towers, and the Return of the King. And now I finish the

second one. The Words that Made Us is one of my favorite legal slash constitutional slash American history books. And here we're picking up

in the run up to the Civil War with your new book called Born Equal. You can pre-order it.

I have pre-ordered it. I'm, yeah, he's showing it to us right here. And it's beautiful. It even

has color maps, which are historical and like really, really

gorgeous maps. And if you don't know, it means he's also a really big deal as a writer,

because most publishers will laugh in your face if you want color pictures in your book. But not

if you're Professor Amar, then you get all the color pictures you want. And by the way, David French, you sound maybe not

like death, but like heated up, death, warmed over? My volume on words is going to be a little

lower. I spent the last four days outside of Medellin, Colombia, where my niece was getting married

to this wonderful Colombian man and was wonderful time. And I don't know if I

picked up a bug or if the act of shouting over pounding Latin music for many, many hours over the

weekends has did this to me. All right. I want to start where you actually start in this book, but I want to go even a little maybe

bigger picture. If one is an originalist, whatever that might mean, how are we supposed to think

about the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, and the second founding, the post-Civil War amendments,

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