Americans often debate what the Constitution allows, but many of those arguments depend on assumptions made long after it was written. What did the document's original readers actually understand it to mean?

Ilan Wurman is a constitutional law scholar and author of the new book The Constitution of 1789: A New Introduction. He joins the show to discuss the Constitution's original meaning, the principles that shaped its creation, and how a closer reading of the nation's founding document may change modern constitutional debates.

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