We the People

Can the Constitution Serve as a Document of National Unity?


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In this episode, AEI’s Yuval Levin, author of American Covenant: How the Constitution Unified Our Nation—and Could Again, and Aziz Rana, professor at Boston College Law and author of The Constitutional Bind: How Americans Came to Idolize a Document That Fails Them, join Jeffrey Rosen for a discussion about whether the Constitution has failed us or can serve as a document of national unity.  

 

Resources: 

  • Yuval Levin, American Covenant: How the Constitution Unified Our Nation—and Could Again (2024) 
  • Aziz Rana, The Constitutional Bind: How Americans Came to Idolize a Document That Fails Them (2024) 
  • The Modern History of Originalism,” NCC’s We the People  podcast, (Aug 2023)
  • Article V, Interactive Constitution
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