Is the Constitution of the United States an ideal blueprint for politics in the late twentieth century? Or should we, in the words of Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall, resist a “complacent belief” in the wisdom of the framers of our principal governing document?
In the first segment of this edition of Soundings, John Wilson discusses the relationship between church and state at the time of the creation of the U.S. Constitution.
In the second segment [14:22], Stephen Conrad and Michael Curtis discuss the rights and privileges of American citizenship as set forth in the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution.
At the time of this interview, Wilson was professor of religion at Princeton University.
Conrad, a Fellow at the National Humanities Center (1986-87), was professor of law at Indiana University. Curtis was an attorney and legal historian living in Greensboro, N.C.
This edition of Soundings was conducted by Wayne J. Pond.
