Jeffrey Rosen answers your questions about the Constitution

We the People

National Constitution Center

History, News Commentary, News

4.6 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 26 May 2016

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Jeffrey Rosen, president and CEO of the National Constitution Center, answers questions about originalism, presidential primaries, Harvard final clubs, and more. 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 David Stotz and produced by Nicandro Iannacci. Research was provided by Josh Waimberg, Lana Ulrich, and Danieli Evans. 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
0:14.1	information about the US Constitution on a non-partisan basis. And on today's show
0:19.0	we return to one of our most popular features the thrilling Ask Jeff.
0:24.7	Listeners, you have sent me your questions on social media
0:27.6	about the Constitution, and we've received so many great questions,
0:31.8	and I will try to the best of my abilities to answer them.
0:35.4	I'm also delighted to plug my new book Louis D Brandeis American Profit which is now available
0:41.9	on Amazon.
0:43.0	You have heard me plug mattresses and raisers.
0:45.0	How much better to plug this riveting examination
0:49.0	of the greatest critic of bigness
0:51.0	in business and government since Thomas Jefferson and the most important
0:55.0	profit about free speech and privacy in an age of new technologies of the 20th century.
1:00.0	We're going to have a great program next week at the National Constitution Center on June 1st,
1:05.0	which is the 100th anniversary of Louis Brandeis' confirmation to the Supreme Court,
1:10.0	and we're going to run that as our podcast next week.
1:13.0	Please do check out Lewis D. Brandeis, American Profit,
1:15.7	and if you read it, please let me know what you think.
1:18.3	Okay, now back to Ask Jeff.
1:20.4	My guest Inquisitor is the We The People, producer, and podcast, Impressario,
1:26.4	Nacandro Ianacci.
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