Elections, Speech, and Political Disinformation

Thursday, March 10 | 7 p.m. ET

What are the leading proposals to combat election disinformation and are they consistent with the First Amendment? Richard L. Hasen, leading election law expert and author of Cheap Speech: How Disinformation Poisons Our Politics—and How to Cure It; Sarah Isgur, staff writer at The Dispatch and co-host of the legal podcast Advisory Opinions; and Catherine Ross, free speech expert and author of A Right to Lie? Presidents, Other Liars, and the First Amendment discuss. Jeffrey Rosen, president and CEO of the National Constitution Center, moderates.

The Original Meaning of the 14th Amendment

Thursday, March 17 | 7 p.m. ET

The 14th Amendment has been cited in more Supreme Court cases—from Plessy v. Ferguson and Brown v. Board of Education to Roe v. Wade and Bush v. Gore—than any other amendment. Yet, there has been an ongoing debate over its meaning and interpretation since its ratification in 1868. Join Randy Barnett and Evan Bernick, authors of The Original Meaning of the Fourteenth Amendment: Its Letter and Spirit, and others for a definitive analysis of the origins, evolution, and future of the amendment. Jeffrey Rosen, president and CEO of the National Constitution Center, moderates. 

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Women’s History Month

In honor of Women’s History Month, the National Constitution Center is featuring a great lineup of women scholars in its online educational classes through the month of March, including University of Texas at Austin’s Ashley D. Farmer, Johns Hopkins University’s Martha S. Jones, The New Yorker’s Jill Lepore, and historian Erica Armstrong Dunbar.

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