Podcasts by Constitutional
With the writing of the Constitution in 1787, the framers set out a young nation’s highest ideals. And ever since, we’ve been fighting over it — what is in it and what was left out. At the heart of these arguments is the story of America.
As a follow-up to the popular Washington Post podcast “Presidential,” reporter Lillian Cunningham returns with this series exploring the Constitution and the people who framed and reframed it — revolutionaries, abolitionists, suffragists, teetotalers, protesters, justices, presidents – in the ongoing struggle to form a more perfect union across a vast and diverse land.
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Ourselves and our posterity from 2018-02-12T08:00
In the"Constitutional"finale, we address listener questions about the history--and future--of the nation's governing document.
ListenThe First Amendment from 2018-01-29T08:00
Why do First Amendment rights trump nearly every other right in America? Thank Jehovah's Witnesses.
ListenProhibition from 2018-01-01T08:00
The passage and then repeal of the 18th Amendment, banning alcohol in America, highlighted the pitfalls of trying to legislate against vice.
ListenThe common defense from 2017-12-04T08:00
One intention the framers had when creating the U.S. Constitution was to “provide for the common defense.” But who shoulders that duty has not always been so clear.
ListenFair punishment from 2017-10-23T07:00
"There is so much feeling of racial injustice around the issue of punishment. And you have to understand that those feelings have a history -- and that history is Parchman Farm."
ListenFair trials from 2017-10-09T07:00
In 1963, the Supreme Court ruled in Gideon v. Wainwright that states must offer a defense attorney to all poor people accused of crimes. The decision transformed the concept of fair trials in Ameri...
ListenCongress and citizens from 2017-09-25T07:00
Is it a feature or a bug of the amendment process that an idea of James Madison's, more than 200 years ago, could be recently resurrected and etched into the U.S. Constitution?
ListenSenate and states from 2017-09-11T07:00
When the United States changed its process for electing senators, did that lead to a decline in state power? Or did it instead bring us closer to a"more perfect union"?
ListenNationality from 2017-08-14T07:00
What makes someone American? A landmark Supreme Court case in 1898, involving a child born in San Francisco to Chinese immigrant parents, would help answer that question.
ListenIntroducing 'Constitutional' from 2017-06-29T14:00
Preview The Washington Post's newest podcast, a narrative series about the revolutionary figures who shaped America's story. Subscribe now to get the first episode when it launches July 24.
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