The Shadows of the Constitution

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Society & Culture, History, Documentary

4.7 • 15K Ratings

🗓️ 12 November 2020

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

The Constitution is like America's secular bible, our sacred founding document. In her play, What the Constitution Means to Me, Heidi Schreck goes through a process of discovering what the document is really about – who wrote it, who it was for, who it protected and who it didn't. Through Heidi's personal story, we learn how the Constitution and how it has been interpreted have affected not just her family but generations of Americans.

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0:45.6	This episode contains adult language and has several references to sexual violence and abuse.
0:59.8	Close your eyes.
1:04.6	Imagine everything you are doing right now floats away.
1:16.6	All the things that stress you out, like money or being on time or the fight you had with
1:23.2	your partner.
1:25.2	Imagine all that is gone and you are in a completely empty room sitting on a chair.
1:36.8	Directly in front of you, maybe ten feet away is a singular dark orb floating.
1:52.4	It is small, completely devoid of light.
2:01.6	But from behind that orb, a faint flickering light begins to emerge.
2:07.7	Slowly, bit by bit, the light surrounds the dark like a mini eclipse happening just
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