Jeffrey Rosen at the Chautauqua Institution
We the People
National Constitution Center
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🗓️ 27 July 2017
⏱️ 76 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | I'm Jeffrey Rosen, president, CEO of the National Constitution Center, and welcome to |
| 0:10.6 | We The People, a weekly show of constitutional debate. |
| 0:14.0 | The National Constitution Center is the only institution in America, chartered by Congress |
| 0:19.2 | to disseminate information about the U.S. Constitution on a nonpartisan basis. |
| 0:25.0 | And on today's show, we drop in on my recent lecture at the Chautauqua Institution in New York. |
| 0:32.1 | Like the Constitution Center, Chautauqua is dedicated to bringing together people |
| 0:36.8 | of different perspectives to explore the important issues of our time with civil dialogue and |
| 0:41.4 | sophisticated programs for learners of all ages. |
| 0:45.0 | Chautauqua has a magnificent history. |
| 0:47.0 | It was one of the great 19th century centers for lifelong learning |
| 0:51.0 | and the Constitution Center was honored in July to host a week of programs |
| 0:57.5 | about the future of the Constitution and the Supreme Court. |
| 1:01.0 | It included Blockbuster lectures from Annette Gordon Reed, Akilamar, Ted Olson, among others. |
| 1:06.5 | You can find all of these great programs at chihuahuan. |
| 1:11.0 | And I had the thrill of standing in the Chautauqua Amper Theater. |
| 1:15.7 | It's this amazing space recently renovated but dating back to the 19th century that although |
| 1:20.8 | it holds thousands of people is incredibly intimate and you can |
| 1:23.9 | look people in the eye as you were talking to them about the great issues of our |
| 1:29.4 | time and feels like a surprisingly intimate conversation among thousands of friends. |
| 1:34.3 | And my question was the one I love best and often ask on this podcast, |
| 1:38.1 | W.W.B.D. What would Brandeis do? |
| 1:41.1 | How would the great Justice Louis Brandeis approach our modern debates about privacy, |
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