"We the People": On the Constitution's Relevance Today

Intelligence Matters

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Politics, News, Government

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🗓️ 16 January 2018

⏱️ 53 minutes

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In this episode of Intelligence Matters, Michael Morell talks to constitutional scholar Geoff Stone on constitutional interpretation and its relevance in today's society. Stone, who authored "Sex and the Constitution" explores oversight of government surveillance on communications and safeguarding a citizen's personal freedoms. Stone also addresses originalism and affirmative action, what he calls the "most cynical form of judicial review we have today."

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0:31.0	There is always some tension between the responsibility of the government to exercise
0:36.3	its authorities and the constraints on how it can exercise those authorities.
0:43.0	A person from Zurich who has an email exchange with someone in Iraq, that thing is going through
0:47.7	the United States.
0:48.7	And once it enters the United States, then there needs to be law that authorizes it because
0:52.5	otherwise it would be on constitutional for the government to intercept it.
1:01.0	Do you think it's possible to generalize on where the framers would fall if they were
1:05.9	alive today?
1:06.9	It's hard to know because the framers had never lived in a world of constitutional law.
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