Live at the National Constitution Center

Living Constitutionally: Insights From A.J. Jacobs and Jeffrey Rosen

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A.J. Jacobs, author of The Year of Living Constitutionally: One Man’s Humble Quest to Follow the Constitution’s Original Meaning, in conversation with NCC President and CEO Jeffrey Rosen, author of the new book The Pursuit of Happiness: How Classical Writers on Virtue Inspired the Lives of the Founders and Defined America. Listen to their discussion on what it means to live constitutionally today.


Resources:

  • A.J. Jacobs, The Year of Living Constitutionally: One Man's Humble Quest to Follow the Constitution’s Original Meaning (2024)
  • "Colonial America" fashion, Brittanica
  • Jonathan Gienapp, The Second Creation: Fixing the American Constitution in the Founding Era (2018)
  • Jud Campbell, “What Did the First Amendment Originally Mean?,” University of Richmond (2018)
  • Texas v. Johnson (1989)
  • NCC's We the People podcast, "The Modern History of Originalism," (August 2023)
  • NCC's We the People podcast, "What the Supreme Court's Opinion in NYSRPA v. Bruen Means for the Second Amendment," (August 2022)
  • "How a college term paper led to a constitutional amendment," Constitution Daily blog, (May 7, 2024)
  • NCC's Constitution Drafting Project
  • Walter Isaacson, Benjamin Franklin: A Life, (2004)


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