Origins of the Federal Constitution

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🗓️ 24 December 2024

⏱️ 88 minutes

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Have you done your assigned reading? Because Sarah Isgur and David French are joined by Judges Charles Eskridge and Brantley Starr to take us to law school. Specifically, a class on the origins of the federal constitution. The Agenda: —Why it matters —The Founders’ Constitution —The Magna Carta and English Bill of Rights —The origins of “rights” —Positive vs. negative rights —The legacy of “witch hunts” —The anti-federalists —The argument against a Bill of Rights —Civic engagement Show Notes (assigned reading): —Origins Part 1 —Origins Part 2 —Origins Part 7 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Ready?
0:02.0	I was born ready.
0:04.0	Welcome to a very special holiday episode of advisory opinions.
0:23.9	I'm Sarah Isgaret.
0:24.7	That's David French.
0:25.6	And that's right.
0:26.5	This is our Christmas Hanukkah, New Year's, any holiday you celebrate present from us to you.
0:34.6	Including festivists.
0:36.3	Absolutely.
0:38.3	Festivus. Absolutely festivus.
0:41.5	And our present is that we're taking you to law school. We have Judge Charles Eskridge from the Southern District of Texas and Judge Brantley
0:46.3	Star from the Northern District of Texas.
0:49.0	They both teach the roughly same law school class at different law schools.
0:53.9	And they're going to
0:55.0	teach it to David and I. And in fact, we were assigned reading in advance, and I will tell you
1:00.7	as we are recording this on a Thursday morning that just like law school, David, I was cramming
1:07.0	up until the minute we walked in here. No, I absolutely hear you.
1:13.2	And I'm just going to say, just like law school, I didn't do all the reading.
1:18.4	Oh, David.
1:19.7	I know.
1:20.3	I know.
1:20.6	So I'm going to go ahead and be begging that I don't get called on today.
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