Tag Archives: Constitution
Speaking Freely
Vincent Blasi, one of this country’s leading experts on civil liberties and constitutional law, discusses the limits and meaning of the free speech clause of the First Amendment to the U. S. Constitution from historical and contemporary perspectives. 736 – … Continue reading
Ratifying the Constitution
Michael Gillespie and Michael Lienesch are coeditors of Ratifying the Constitution: Ideas and Interests in the Several American States, which contains the papers presented at a conference of the same name held in May 1987 at the National Humanities Center and was cosponsored … Continue reading
Posted in Episodes, Gillespie, Michael A., Lienesch, Michael
Tagged Constitution, Constitutional history, Humanities, U.S. Constitution
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Creating the Constitution
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 … Continue reading
Posted in Conrad, Stephen A., Curtis, Michael Kent, Episodes, Wilson, John F.
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American Federalism
In 1787 in Philadelphia, 55 delegates debated the features of the proposed constitution of the United States. Those in favor were federalists, those against were antifederalists. The federalists prevailed. Yet, according to William Allen, it is inaccurate to overlook the contribution … Continue reading
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Religion and Government in America
The protection of religious freedom was a central concern of the framers of the Constitution of the United States and remains a central concern in American culture in the 1980s. John Semonche looks at the dichotomies that existed between the original … Continue reading
Posted in Episodes, Semonche, John E.
Tagged Constitution, Freedom of Religion, Religion, U.S. Constitution
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America at the Founding
In the first of two conversations in this edition of Soundings, Lance Banning describes aspects of James Madison’s role in the founding of the American republic. In the second segment [13:50], Stephen Conrad discusses James Wilson, a prominent framer of the … Continue reading
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Tagged American history, Constitution, James Madison, James Wilson
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Interpreting the Constitution
William Leuchtenburg and Edwin Yoder discuss issues concerning how the Supreme Court and American Jurisprudence should best interpret the Constitution of the United State. Is it a living document responsive to contemporary social issues, or is it a changeless cultural touchstone … Continue reading
Posted in Episodes, Leuchtenburg, William E., Yoder, Edwin M.
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English Law and Politics, Medieval to Modern
How did English society develop its legal and political canons? How did medieval English legal culture find expression in later English politics? Donald Sutherland discusses medieval English law reports and James Epstein outlines the importance of what he terms British … Continue reading
Posted in Episodes, Epstein, James, Sutherland, Donald W.
Tagged Constitution, Great Britain -- Law -- History, Great Britain -- Politics and government -- History, Politics
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Republics, Ancient and Modern, Part 2 of 2
George Kennedy, Marc Plattner, and Paul Rahe discuss the importance to both popular and academic audiences of republican forms of government, from antiquity to contemporary deliberations about concepts and practice. In response to a question about what kind of government had … Continue reading
Posted in Episodes, Kennedy, George A., Plattner, Marc F., Rahe, Paul Anthony
Tagged Ancient Greece -- Politics, Constitution, Government -- Republics, Politics -- U.S., U.S. Constitution
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American Political Leadership
James MacGregor Burns examines the similarities and the contrasts in leadership qualities of the Founding Fathers and of political leaders in the 1980s. He argues that the fragmentation of modern American politics makes it difficult for politicians to become effective … Continue reading
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Tagged Constitution, Politics
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