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I'm Jeffrey Rosen, president and CEO of the National Constitution Center,

and welcome to the latest of our We the People Constitutional

Podcasts. The National Constitution Center is the only institution in America

chartered by Congress to disseminate information about the US Constitution on a nonpartisan basis.

And today we discuss one of the most hotly contested constitutional questions of the week,

namely the President's power to enact a nuclear deal with Iran.

On July 14th, foreign ministers from the United States, Iran, Russia, China, the UK, France,

and Germany reached an international accord about Iran's

nuclear program.

In Washington, where Congress has two months to review the deal, it has been criticized by some and has been a source of controversy since the

accord was reached our goal in this conversation today is to both explain

what the accord is and then explore whether or not the president has the

constitutional authority to enact it without explicit congressional

support. Joining me to discuss these fascinating constitutional questions

are two of the nation's

experts on international and constitutional law. David Rivkin is a

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