Can the Constitution Serve as a Document of National Unity?

Run time: 1 hour, 2 minutes

Yuval Levin, author of American Covenant: How the Constitution Unified Our Nation—and Could Again, and Aziz Rana, 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. Listen on We the People or Watch the America's Town Hall program

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How Much Do You Know About the American Flag?

by NCC Staff | Read time: 2 minutes

“In honor of Flag Day, here are 10 fascinating facts about the Stars and Stripes that may surprise you. ...” Read more

The Supreme Court and Social Media: Can Government Officials Block Online Comments?

by Scott Bomboy | Read time: 5 minutes

In the first part of a multi-part series, Constitution Daily looks at recent Supreme Court decisions about the evolving world of social media, and the First Amendment challenges faced by governments, their officials, media companies, and the public. Read more

CNN’s Inside Politics: Jeffrey Rosen Discusses Unanimous Decision in Abortion Pill Case

National Constitution Center President and CEO Jeffrey Rosen appeared on CNN’s Inside Politics to discuss the unanimous decision by the Supreme Court in Food and Drug Administration v. Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine, a case determining whether or not the abortion pill mifepristone can remain widely available to the public. Watch now

The Preamble

“We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.”

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