Hamilton, the man and the musical

We the People

National Constitution Center

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🗓️ 9 June 2016

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Annette Gordon-Reed and Michael Klarman of Harvard Law School discuss Alexander Hamilton's constitutional legacy and the Broadway musical that bears his name. Get the latest constitutional news, and continue the conversation, on our Facebook page and Twitter feed. We want to know what you think of the podcast! Email us at [email protected]. Please subscribe to We the People on iTunes. While you’re in the iTunes Store, leave us a rating and review; it helps other people discover what we do. Please also subscribe to Live at America’s Town Hall, featuring conversations and debates presented at the Center, across from Independence Hall in beautiful Philadelphia. We the People is a member of Slate’s Panoply network. Check out all of our sibling podcasts at iTunes.com/Panoply. 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 Jason Gregory and produced by Nicandro Iannacci. Research was provided byJosh Waimberg and Tom Donnelly. The host of We the People is Jeffrey Rosen.

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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.
0:08.0	The National Constitution Center is the only institution in America chartered by Congress to disseminate information
0:14.3	about the US Constitution on a non-partisan basis. And on today's show we examine
0:20.3	the life and legacy of the constitutional rock star of the moment, Alexander Hamilton.
0:26.8	You know about him if you've heard the music or been lucky enough to see the show, the 70th annual Tony Awards are about to be held and the big
0:36.3	winner is expected to be Lynn Manuel Miranda's musical adaptation of Ron Cherno's best-selling
0:42.0	biography of Alexander Hamilton.
0:46.4	But what is Hamilton's constitutional legacy?
0:50.0	Is he in fact a model that we want to embrace today?
0:53.7	And what about the competing constitutional vision
0:56.2	of his arch rival Thomas Jefferson?
0:59.3	Has that been overlooked in the musical craze?
1:02.1	Joining us to examine the constitutional legacy
1:05.2	of the $10 founding father without a father
1:08.6	are two of the nation's leading legal historians and scholars of the founding era.
1:15.4	And at Gordon Reed is the Charles Warren professor of American legal
1:18.6	history at Harvard Law School.
1:20.4	She is also the Carol K. Fortheimer professor at Radcliffe and a professor of history in the Harvard Faculty of Arts and Science.
1:29.0	And we're always thrilled to have her at the National Constitution Center because of her award-winning
1:33.8	scholarship about the founding era.
1:36.7	And Michael Clarmon is the Kirkland and Ellis Professor of Law at Harvard Law School,
1:41.2	also an award-winning legal historian and author of a forthcoming book
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