The Constitution Drafting Project

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National Constitution Center

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🗓️ 26 November 2020

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Summary

The National Constitution Center’s Constitution Drafting Project brought together three teams of leading constitutional scholars—team libertarian, team progressive, and team conservative—to draft and present their ideal constitutions. The leaders of each team—Caroline Frederickson of team progressive, Ilya Shapiro of team libertarian, and Ilan Wurman of team conservative—joined host Jeffrey Rosen to share the process behind their approach to drafting their constitutions and agreeing on what to include and not to include; the overall structure of their constitutions as well as the specific constitutional ideas they added to and subtracted from the U.S. Constitution; and the similarities and differences between the three constitutions. Team libertarian also included Timothy Sandefur of the Goldwater Institute and Christina Mulligan of Brooklyn Law School. Team progressive also included Jamal Greene of Columbia Law School and Melissa Murray of New York University School of Law. Team conservative also included Robert P. George of Princeton University, Michael McConnell of Stanford Law School, and Colleen A. Sheehan of Arizona State University. The project was generously supported by Jeff Yass. Questions or comments about the show? Email us at podcast@constitutioncenter.org.

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0:00.0	I'm Jeffrey Rosen, president and CEO of the National Constitution Center, and welcome
0:07.8	to We The People, a weekly show of constitutional debate.
0:11.2	The National Constitution Center is a nonpartisan nonprofit chartered by Congress to increase awareness and understanding of the Constitution among the American people.
0:21.0	The National Constitution Center recently launched the Constitution
0:24.9	drafting project. We brought together three dream teams of leading
0:30.0	constitutional scholars, team conservative, team progressive, and team
0:35.6	libertarian to draft and present their ideal constitutions. On today's
0:40.8	We The People, we bring you a special episode to celebrate the launch of the project
0:45.3	and to review the major proposals of each team.
0:49.4	I'm joined by the leaders of our three dream teams.
0:54.0	Caroline Fredrickson is the leader of Team Progressive,
0:57.3	which includes Professor Jamal Green of Columbia Law School
1:00.3	and Professor Melissa Murray of NYU School of Law.
1:04.0	She is distinguished visitor from practice
1:06.4	at Georgetown Law Center, Senior Fellow
1:08.6	at the Brennan Center for Justice,
1:10.5	and author of the books, The Democracy Fix, Under the Bus, and the AOC Way, the secrets of Alexandria
1:17.6	Ocasio Cortez's success.
1:19.8	Carolyn, it is wonderful to have you back on the show.
1:23.0	It's great to be with you.
1:25.0	I'll Yepiro is the leader of team libertarian,
1:28.0	which also includes Timothy Sandifir,
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