Utah and the Constitution: A New National Narrative | Akhil Reed Amar | September 2023

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🗓️ 27 September 2023

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Akhil Reed Amar, the Sterling Professor of Law and Political Science at Yale University, gives insights into the birth of the U.S. Constitution and an expanded historical narrative of its first half century. Amar, an American legal scholar, delivered this forum address on September 26, 2023. You can access the talk here.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the recent speeches podcast presented by BYU speeches
0:05.0	featuring inspiring new devotional and forums given each week on BYU campus.
0:10.0	Be sure to check out our other podcasts by searching BYU speeches wherever you get your podcasts or by visiting
0:17.2	speeches dot BYU.edU slash podcasts.
0:21.2	One word in the slash podcasts.
0:24.0	One word in the title of this talk, I'm sure you recognize Utah, you know, but another word is narrative and a national narrative so what
0:35.4	what's that all about this national narrative here's the point I'm gonna speak
0:41.2	formally on this in the second part of my remarks, but let me just try to set the
0:45.6	the scene for you. Here's the challenge. Here's the issue. We Americans are, to use an overused word, an extraordinarily diverse group. We don't have religion in common. We don't have race in common. We don't have
1:10.1	geography quite in common. It's a vast land. We don't have even language in common.
1:16.6	We don't have politics in common. So what do we have in common? I think what we have in
1:21.6	common is a common Constitution and the story behind that
1:27.2	Constitution a constitutional narrative and without that there's no we. Some of
1:32.4	our forebarers came here yesterday. Some of them came 250 years ago with
1:41.1	bullwips in their hands.
1:42.8	Others came 250 years ago in chains.
1:47.0	And to repeat, the thing that binds us together is a certain text, the Constitution, and a certain
1:57.0	story behind that text, but most of us actually don't know that
2:05.0	we die or at least be risk dying.
2:09.0	So let me take a step back and tell you just a little bit about the standard narratives that are out there.
2:16.8	And I'll tell you my slightly different narrative, and then I'll tell you where Utah fits into that story and I think we're going to put some
2:25.9	maps and other images on the screen at a certain point pretty soon but
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