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The Counsel

Note From Elie: Where the Constitution is Silent

The Counsel

Vox Media Podcast Network

News, Politics

4.7861 Ratings

🗓️ 18 February 2022

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Note From Elie is part of the free weekly CAFE Brief newsletter. Audio recordings of Elie's Note are part of the CAFE Insider subscription. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:30.5

Hey, everybody, Ellie here, bringing you my weekly note to the cafe community.

0:34.9

I hope you're enjoying these.

0:36.0

I love hearing back from you.

0:37.2

Let me know what you think. Letters at cafe.com.

1:03.0

Our dear Constitution, you are a wondrous, brilliant document. We want to say that right up front.

1:09.2

We truly admire you. You've stood up over the centuries. You have guided us and you hold us together now. You're not perfect, but you're willing to

1:11.9

amend your ways from time to time. You are a living, evolving document, even though you haven't

1:18.2

made any changes at all since 1992, but this is a judgment-free zone. Know this. You are loved

1:25.5

and appreciated. But we asked you to come here today because you do have

1:31.0

this one little habit that we need to discuss. Please take this in the loving spirit in which it's

1:36.9

intended. You see, every once in a while, you give us some important command, but then you tell us absolutely nothing about how it's supposed to work.

1:48.0

And sometimes your habit can make us feel a bit adrift.

1:52.0

Take, for example, the 14th Amendment.

1:55.1

Not the big-ticket headliners in Section 1, due process and equal protection.

1:59.5

Those are fine, great even. We've been working

2:02.0

with those clauses ever since the ratification of the 14th back in 1868. We haven't gotten

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