Can Tennessee Ban Medical Transitions for Transgender Minors?

Run time: 1 hour

Professor Kurt Lash and David Gans join Jeffrey Rosen to debate whether the Tennessee law that prohibits transgender minors from receiving gender transition surgery and hormone therapy violates the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment. Listen now

How Religious Were the Founders?

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Jane Calvert, Vincent Phillip Muñoz, and Thomas Kidd discuss religious liberty and the founders. Jeffrey Rosen, president and CEO of the National Constitution Center, moderates. Watch now

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The Newest Debate Over the Ten Commandments in Public Schools

by Scott Bomboy | Read time: 5 minutes

“A Louisiana state law mandating Ten Commandments posters in public schools is the latest in a long line of controversies related to religious symbolism in public locations. ...” Read more

December 6, 1865: The United States Formally Outlaws Slavery

by NCC Staff | Read time: 4 minutes

“On December 6, 1865, the 13th Amendment was ratified after the state of Georgia approved the amendment as it was proposed to the states by Congress. That act officially ended the practice of slavery in the United States. ...” Read more

Jeffrey Rosen on United States v. Skrmetti

National Constitution Center President and CEO Jeffrey Rosen discussed Wednesday’s Supreme Court oral arguments for United States v. Skrmetti, a case regarding whether or not a Tennessee Senate bill violates the equal protection clause of the 14th Amendment and discriminates based on sex.

Watch clip on CNN with John Berman

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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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