NPR's Throughline: The Shadows of the Constitution

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4.5 • 24.9K Ratings

🗓️ 26 November 2020

⏱️ 45 minutes

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In this special episode NPR's Throughline explore the constitution with Heidi Schreck and her play, What the Constitution Means to Me. They discover what the document is really about – who wrote it, who it was for, who it protected and who it didn't.

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0:00.0	Hey there, it's the MPR Politics Podcast.
0:05.5	Happy Thanksgiving.
0:07.0	We wanted to give you something special for the holiday, and we thought what better than
0:10.9	a special episode from MPR's Thru Line Podcast.
0:14.7	Thru Line dives deep into history to explain what's happening today.
0:18.7	In this episode, they go about discovering what the Constitution is really about.
0:23.2	Who wrote it?
0:24.2	Who it was for?
0:25.2	Who it protected and who it didn't.
0:27.3	We hope you enjoy and we'll be back tomorrow.
0:29.6	Here's MPR's Thru Line.
0:34.6	Close your eyes.
0:39.6	Imagine everything you are doing right now floats away.
0:51.6	All the things that stress you out, like money or being on time, or the fight you had
0:57.9	with your partner.
0:59.9	Imagine all that is gone, and you are in a completely empty room sitting on a chair.
1:11.9	Directly in front of you, maybe ten feet away is a singular dark orb floating.
1:26.9	It is small, completely devoid of light.
1:33.9	But from behind that orb, a faint flickering light begins to emerge.
1:42.9	Slowly, bit by bit, the light surrounds the dark like a mini eclipse happening, just for
1:50.9	you in that room.
1:52.9	This space of partial illumination, as in and eclipse, between the perfect shadow on
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