Jeffrey Rosen answers your constitutional questions

We the People

National Constitution Center

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🗓️ 23 February 2017

⏱️ 45 minutes

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The president and CEO of the National Constitution Center answers listener questions about sanctuary cities, presidential power, and more. Continue today’s conversation on Facebook and Twitter using @ConstitutionCtr. Sign up to receive Constitution Weekly, our email roundup of constitutional news and debate, at bit.ly/constitutionweekly. We want to know what you think of the podcast! Email us at editor@constitutioncenter.org. Please subscribe to We the People and our companion podcast, Live at America’s Town Hall, on iTunes, Stitcher, or your favorite podcast app. We the People is a member of Slate’s Panoply network. Check out the full roster at Panoply.fm. 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. Today’s show was engineered by Jason Gregory and David Stotz. It was produced by Diana Allen and Nicandro Iannacci. Research was provided by Dan Meyer and Lana Ulrich. Special thanks to Tom Donnelly for serving as interlocutor. The host of We the People is Jeffrey Rosen.

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0:00.0	All right. Thank you, everyone, for being with us here on Facebook.
0:07.0	We're here to answer your questions about the Constitution with NCC President and CEO, Jeffrey Rosen.
0:12.9	We're not going to obviously get to all the questions that we've received,
0:15.7	but we will try to answer them in future editions of Constitution Weekly,
0:20.4	which is our weekly newsletter
0:21.5	on constitutional news, debates, etc., that you could sign up for at the National Constitution
0:27.5	Center's website. So, Jeff, thanks so much for being here. Thank you, Tom. Thanks, everyone, for joining
0:32.3	on Facebook Live. What an exciting time at the Constitution Center. Last week, we announced our new chair, Vice President Joe Biden.
0:41.2	And the Vice President succeeds an incredible group of chairs, Governor Jeb Bush,
0:47.1	President Bill Clinton, and President Bush 41.
0:50.5	An amazing group of statesmen from both sides of the aisle, and we are so honored to have
0:56.6	the chance to work with the vice president in the years ahead.
1:00.7	And Tom mentioned this great new feature.
1:02.2	We've got Constitution Weekly.
1:04.4	It's a weekly email where we set the constitutional question of the week, which often
1:08.4	jumps off of our We the People podcast, which I hope you're
1:11.5	subscribing to, and which this Facebook Live will be released as part of tomorrow. And then we
1:16.9	release the relevant clause from the interactive constitution, commentary and primary sources
1:22.3	that allow you to make up your own minds, and other great programs from the NCC. So sign up for the newsletter.
1:30.3	The best way to do that is to join as a member. Go to the Constitution Center website,
1:34.3	constitution center.org, and just sign up at any level. The money is not important,
1:40.3	although obviously we need your support. I want you to be a member of the Constitution Center so you can get our incredible content and educate yourself about the Constitution
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