Akhil Amar, Sterling Professor of law and political science at Yale, joins Sarah and David for a deep dive into the constitutional battles and amendments that ended slavery, offering a preview of his forthcoming book, Born Equal: Remaking America’s Constitution, 1840–1920.
The Agenda:
- Exploring originalism and American identity
- Our canonical texts
- The Second Amendment and originalism
- The evolution of constitutional interpretation
- ‘His errors were symmetric’
- Harriet Beecher Stowe: America’s first female superstar
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