Jeffrey Rosen answers your questions about constitutional interpretation

We the People

National Constitution Center

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🗓️ 25 August 2016

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Jeffrey Rosen, president and CEO of the National Constitution Center, answers your questions about progressive originalism, Justice Clarence Thomas, the Civil War, and more. Get the latest constitutional news, and continue the conversation, on Facebook and Twitter. We want to know what you think of the podcast! Email us at [email protected]. Please subscribe to We the People and 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. This show was engineered by Jason Gregory and David Stotz. It was produced by Nicandro Iannacci. Research was provided by Lana Ulrich and Tom Donnelly. The host of We the People is Jeffrey Rosen.

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0:00.0	Welcome everybody. I am Jeffrey Rosen, the president and CEO of the National
0:08.3	Constitution Center and welcome to the first Facebook Live edition of the We The People Podcast.
0:16.1	The National Constitution Center is the only institution in America chartered by Congress
0:21.2	to disseminate information about the US Constitution on a nonpartisan
0:25.8	basis.
0:26.9	And today we're doing something that we're very excited about, and that is taking your questions
0:31.2	about constitutional interpretation.
0:34.5	Over the past year many of our great We The People listeners have written in and said,
0:38.6	what are the major methodologies of constitutional interpretation?
0:42.1	Can you give us examples of them and how can we
0:43.9	become familiar with these methodologies so we can choose for ourselves which ones we think
0:48.4	are most convincing.
0:49.7	And that's really your job, ladies and gentlemen,
0:52.8	as students of the Constitution
0:54.2	is to educate yourselves about these methodologies
0:56.8	so you can evaluate them and use them,
0:58.8	remembering always that there is a difference
1:00.5	between your constitutional conclusions and your political
1:04.1	conclusions. So some of you have already submitted questions via
1:07.7	Facebook and Twitter and I'll answer them and then we'll take your questions
1:11.2	live so get those ready and send them in and joining me as great constitutional interlocutor
1:18.0	and constitutional partner in crime is Tom Donnelly.
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