Woodrow Wilson: The Light Withdrawn

Run time: 56 minutes

Political historian Christopher Cox and Professor Geoffrey Stone join Jeffrey Rosen to discuss Woodrow Wilson’s constitutional and historical impact. They examine Wilson’s involvement in the defining constitutional fights of his era, on speech and women’s suffrage, and they confront the reality of Wilson’s virulent opposition to racial equality. Listen now on We the People or Watch on America's Town Hall

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Was Washington’s Thanksgiving Proclamation the First Executive Order?

by Scott Bomboy | Read time: 3 minutes

“On Thursday, Americans celebrated a Thanksgiving holiday that has its roots in colonial traditions. But was that holiday created by the first executive order issued by a President? ...” Read more

November 27, 1973: The 25th Amendment Gets its First Test

by Scott Bomboy | Read time: 3 minutes

“On November 27, 1973, the United States Senate became the first legislative house to act under the 25th Amendment, when it voted to approve Representative Gerald Ford as the new vice president. ...” Read more

Proto: Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library

Winston Churchill on Why the U.S. Constitution Matters

“On the anniversary of his birth, November 30, Constitution Daily looks back at what the British leader and author Sir Winston Churchill had to say about the American Constitution, which was quite a lot. ...” Read more

The 14th Amendment

“All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.” 

Read interpretations in the Interactive Constitution

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