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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 th... Read more

Warning: This podcast is a series podcast

This means episodes are recommended to be heard in order from the very start. Here's the 10 best episodes of the series anyway though!

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Ancestry

Ancestry

In 1879, a case involving Chief Standing Bear came before a Nebraska courtroom and demanded an answer to the question: A... Read more

7 Aug 2017

40mins

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Framed

Framed

In the premier episode of “Constitutional,” we go back in time to that hot Philadelphia summer in 1787 when a group of r... Read more

24 Jul 2017

1hr 3mins

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Nationality

Nationality

What makes someone American? A landmark Supreme Court case in 1898, involving a child born in San Francisco to Chinese i... Read more

14 Aug 2017

47mins

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Race

Race

As powerful as it was to change the Constitution after the Civil War, and enshrine racial equality into our governing do... Read more

21 Aug 2017

51mins

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Gender

Gender

From the American Revolution through today, women have been leading a long-burning rebellion to gain rights not original... Read more

28 Aug 2017

48mins

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Senate and states

Senate and states

When the United States changed its process for electing senators, did that lead to a decline in state power? Or did it i... Read more

11 Sep 2017

45mins

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Congress and citizens

Congress and citizens

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 rec... Read more

25 Sep 2017

38mins

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Fair trials

Fair trials

In 1963, the Supreme Court ruled in Gideon v. Wainwright that states must offer a defense attorney to all poor people ac... Read more

9 Oct 2017

46mins

Ranked #9

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Introducing 'Constitutional'

Introducing 'Constitutional'

Preview The Washington Post's newest podcast, a narrative series about the revolutionary figures who shaped America's st... Read more

29 Jun 2017

4mins

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Fair punishment

Fair punishment

"There is so much feeling of racial injustice around the issue of punishment. And you have to understand that those feel... Read more

23 Oct 2017

51mins

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