I'm Jeffrey Rosen, President and CEO of the National Constitution Center, and welcome

to the latest of our We The People Constitutional Podcasts.

The National Constitution Center is the only institution in America chartered by Congress

to disseminate information about the U.S. Constitution on a nonpartisan basis.

And today I am thrilled to share with you one of the most exciting town hall events we have ever

held at the National Constitution Center and it is called Freedom Day.

On April 13th, which is Thomas Jefferson's birthday, we held the first annual freedom day which convened

top thought leaders from across the spectrum to converge in Philadelphia at the National Constitution

Center to discuss what conservatives, liberals, and libertarians agree about and

disagree about the future of freedom. And we had extraordinary panels co-hosted by our

great partners at the Federalist Society and the American Constitution Society and

the Aspen Institute discussing the future of free speech and religious liberty.

The keystone of the event was the panel that you're about to hear, where we united the heads

of the top think tanks in America, the Aspen Institute, the

American Enterprise Institute, the Cato Institute, the Center for American Progress, and the

ACLU for a wide-ranging conversation about the future of freedom.

I don't want to spoil it except to say that it really was one of the most

exhilarating constitutional conversations I've had the honor of participating in. It is interesting to see what all

sides agreed about and disagreed about and inspiring at the end to see that despite the

substantial and serious constitutional

disagreements all sides were able to converge around our shared

devotion to the First Amendment, the Fourth Amendment,

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