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Our American Stories

How the Constitution Came to Be: The Story of America [Ep. 12]

Our American Stories

iHeartPodcasts

Documentary, Society & Culture

4.6817 Ratings

🗓️ 29 May 2024

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

On this episode of Our American Stories, the Constitution didn't just become the law of the land overnight—it took some convincing. Here to tell the story of the work that most influenced the Founders - The Federalist Papers - is Bill McClay, author of Land of Hope.

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0:00.0

This is an IHeart podcast.

0:04.5

Adventure should never come with a pause button.

0:07.1

Remember Movie Pass?

0:08.4

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0:11.1

I'm Bridget Todd, host of There Are No Girls on the Internet.

0:13.9

And this season, I'm digging into the tech stories we weren't told.

0:17.4

Starting with Stacey Spikes, the black founder of movie pass who got pushed out of the company

0:21.6

he built.

0:22.8

Everybody's trying to knock you down and it's not going to work and no one's going to like it.

0:27.3

And then boom, it's everywhere.

0:29.3

And that was that moment.

0:30.7

Listen to there are no girls on the internet on the Iheart radio app, Apple Podcast, or wherever you get your podcast.

0:44.8

Yeah. or wherever you get your podcast. And we return to our American Stories.

0:48.3

Up next, another installment of our series about us,

0:51.6

The Story of America series,

0:53.5

with Hillsdale College Professor Bill

0:55.7

McLeigh, author of the fantastic book, Land of Hope. When the Constitution was finished,

1:01.1

it took a massive effort on the part of the framers to make it the law of the land. Let's get

1:07.0

into the story. Here's Bill McLeigh. Okay.

1:24.1

So the Constitution had been drafted, had been approved, but it didn't automatically take effect.

1:30.9

Now it had to be ratified, ratified by the respective states. And this was not going to be easy. There was a real fear of any expansion of power, of centralized power, of national power,

1:39.3

and not without reason. The founders had understood this was going to be a difficult thing, but they also

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