When thinking of the people who crafted the U.S. Constitution, the name Eliza Harriot doesn’t usually come to mind. Mary Sarah Bilder, Founders Professor of Law at Boston College Law School, sheds ...
“The first man put at the helm will be a good one,” Benjamin Franklin said at the Constitutional Convention in June 1787, referring to George Washington. “No body knows what sort may come afterward.
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An annotated Constitution helps 'the people' see themselves in the founding document
NYU Law professor Melissa Murray gives context and commentary on the nation's founding document in her new book The U.S. Constitution: A Comprehensive and Annotated Guide for the Modern Reader.
CHRISTIANE AMANPOUR, CHIEF INTERNATIONAL ANCHOR: Now, all over the world, women-led social and peace movements are on the rise, while at the same time, the fight for women’s fundamental rights ...
Retired Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer on his book "Reading the Constitution." Interpreting the Constitution for modern America is of course the divisive legal dilemma of the times, and retired ...
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