Episodes

  • Introducing 'Constitutional'

    Introducing 'Constitutional'
    Jun 29 2017
    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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    5 mins
  • Framed

    Framed
    Jul 24 2017
    In the premier episode of “Constitutional,” we go back in time to that hot Philadelphia summer in 1787 when a group of revolutionary Americans debated, drank and together drafted the U.S. Constitution.
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    1 hr and 3 mins
  • Ancestry

    Ancestry
    Aug 7 2017
    In 1879, a case involving Chief Standing Bear came before a Nebraska courtroom and demanded an answer to the question: Are Native Americans considered human beings under the U.S. Constitution?
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    41 mins
  • Nationality

    Nationality
    Aug 14 2017
    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.
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    47 mins
  • Race

    Race
    Aug 21 2017
    As powerful as it was to change the Constitution after the Civil War, and enshrine racial equality into our governing document, that wasn’t enough to change the reality of life in America.
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    52 mins
  • Gender

    Gender
    Aug 28 2017
    From the American Revolution through today, women have been leading a long-burning rebellion to gain rights not originally guaranteed under the Constitution.
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    49 mins
  • Senate and states

    Senate and states
    Sep 11 2017
    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"?
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    45 mins
  • Congress and citizens

    Congress and citizens
    Sep 25 2017
    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?
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    39 mins