Constitutional

Constitutional

19 episodes

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 these arguments is the story of America. As a follow-up to the popular Washington Post podcast “Presidential,” reporter Lillian Cunningham returns with this series exploring the Constitution and the people who framed and reframed it — revolutionaries, abolitionists, suffragists, teetotalers, protesters, justices, presidents – in the ongoing struggle to form a more perfect union across a vast and diverse land.

Podcasts

Introducing The Empty Grave of Comrade Bishop

Published: Oct. 16, 2023, 11 a.m.
Duration: 3 minutes 34 seconds

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Listen to the first episode of Field Trip: Yosemite National Park

Published: June 29, 2023, 10 a.m.
Duration: 55 minutes 41 seconds

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Introducing Field Trip

Published: June 14, 2023, 11 a.m.
Duration: 3 minutes 13 seconds

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Introducing "Broken Doors"

Published: April 27, 2022, 8 p.m.
Duration: 4 minutes 23 seconds

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Introducing Moonrise

Published: July 19, 2019, 2 p.m.
Duration: 4 minutes 55 seconds

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Ourselves and our posterity

Published: Feb. 12, 2018, 8 a.m.
Duration: 54 minutes 30 seconds

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The First Amendment

Published: Jan. 29, 2018, 8 a.m.
Duration: 52 minutes 5 seconds

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Privacy

Published: Jan. 15, 2018, 8 a.m.
Duration: 45 minutes 12 seconds

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Prohibition

Published: Jan. 1, 2018, 8 a.m.
Duration: 53 minutes 2 seconds

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Taxes

Published: Dec. 18, 2017, 8 a.m.
Duration: 42 minutes 4 seconds

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The common defense

Published: Dec. 4, 2017, 8 a.m.
Duration: 49 minutes 29 seconds

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War

Published: Nov. 20, 2017, 8 a.m.
Duration: 41 minutes 15 seconds

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Love

Published: Nov. 6, 2017, 8 a.m.
Duration: 38 minutes 42 seconds

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Fair punishment

Published: Oct. 23, 2017, 7 a.m.
Duration: 51 minutes 2 seconds

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Fair trials

Published: Oct. 9, 2017, 7 a.m.
Duration: 46 minutes 31 seconds

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Congress and citizens

Published: Sept. 25, 2017, 7 a.m.
Duration: 38 minutes 42 seconds

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Senate and states

Published: Sept. 11, 2017, 7 a.m.
Duration: 45 minutes 22 seconds

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Gender

Published: Aug. 28, 2017, 7 a.m.
Duration: 48 minutes 39 seconds

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Race

Published: Aug. 21, 2017, 7 a.m.
Duration: 51 minutes 33 seconds

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Nationality

Published: Aug. 14, 2017, 7 a.m.
Duration: 47 minutes 18 seconds

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Ancestry

Published: Aug. 7, 2017, 7 a.m.
Duration: 40 minutes 39 seconds

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Framed

Published: July 24, 2017, 7 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 3 minutes 9 seconds

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Introducing 'Constitutional'

Published: June 29, 2017, 2 p.m.
Duration: 4 minutes 50 seconds

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