The Gun, the Ship, and the Pen

Linda Colley, author of the new book The Gun, The Ship, and the Pen: Warfare, Constitutions, and the Making of the Modern World, and David Armitage, author of The Declaration of Independence: A Global History, join host Jeffrey Rosen to survey the history of global constitutionalism.

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The Fights for Abolition and Women's Rights

Dorothy Wickenden, author of The Agitators: Three Friends Who Fought for Abolition and Women's Rights, and Thavolia Glymph, author of The Women's Fight: The Civil War's Battles for Home, Freedom, and Nation, discuss the early days of the abolition movement and the fight for women’s rights with Jeffrey Rosen.

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The Day That Martin Luther King Jr. Died by NCC Staff

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Is Aaron Burr Really the Father of the Filibuster? by Scott Bomboy

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If you'd like to learn more about the creation of constitutions after listening to this week's We the People, check out our recent Scholar Exchange session featuring writer and professor Jill Lepore. Lepore discussed the issues and events in early America that led to the Constitutional Convention, the major debates at the Convention, and how those debates shaped the future of the United States.

From the National Constitution Center:

Constitution 101: Jill Lepore on the Constitutional Convention

Article I, Section 8

"The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defence and general Welfare of the United States;...To define and punish Piracies and Felonies committed on the high Seas, and Offenses against the Law of Nations; To declare War, grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal, and make Rules concerning Captures on Land and Water;

To raise and support Armies, but no Appropriation of Money to that Use shall be for a longer Term than two Years; To provide and maintain a Navy; To make Rules for the Government and Regulation of the land and naval Forces; To provide for calling forth the Militia to execute the Laws of the Union, suppress Insurrections and repel Invasions..."

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