Explore the new Interactive Constitution
We the People
National Constitution Center
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🗓️ 15 September 2015
⏱️ 47 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | I'm Jeffrey Rosen, president and CEO of the National Constitution Center, and welcome to We the People, a weekly show of constitutional debate. |
| 0:09.0 | The National Constitution |
| 0:13.7 | to disseminate information about the US Constitution on a |
| 0:17.5 | nonpartisan basis. And on that note I have the great pleasure of |
| 0:21.7 | wishing everyone happy Constitution Day on |
| 0:25.1 | September 1787 39 members of the Constitutional Convention signed the new |
| 0:30.2 | US Constitution at Independence Hall in Philadelphia. |
| 0:34.0 | Here at the National Constitution Center, |
| 0:36.6 | we are celebrating Constitution Day |
| 0:39.3 | with a really thrilling launch. |
| 0:41.6 | And I can't tell you how excited and happy I am to share with you a |
| 0:46.6 | preview of our new interactive constitution. |
| 0:50.6 | This is an amazing educational tool made possible by a generous grant from the John Templeton Foundation |
| 0:57.0 | and with the guidance of the Federalist Society and the American Constitution Society, we have brought together the top |
| 1:05.1 | scholars in America of different perspectives to write about every provision of the Constitution |
| 1:11.0 | and the Bill of Rights, describing both what they agree about and what they disagree about. |
| 1:17.0 | This is the first time in America that these scholars have engaged in the project of deciding what they agree about and disagree about. |
| 1:25.0 | And in addition to that, we have an amazing partnership with a college board |
| 1:29.0 | which has decided to make the interactive constitution a centerpiece of the new AP history and government curriculum. |
| 1:35.8 | And with this incredible free online tool which all of you can check out and I hope you will as you listen to this show at Constitution |
| 1:43.7 | Center.org people across America will be able to have access to the best arguments |
| 1:49.6 | on all sides of the constitutional questions at the center of American life so that they can |
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