Death Row, Religious Freedom, Legislative Censure, and Free Speech

Run time: 1 hour

First Amendment experts Michael McConnell and Eugene Volokh join host Jeffrey Rosen to discuss two recent Supreme Court decisions about religious freedom and freedom of speech. Listen now

Benjamin Franklin PBS Documentary With Ken Burns and Erica Armstrong Dunbar

Run time: 57 minutes

Filmmaker Ken Burns and historian Erica Armstrong Dunbar join us for a discussion of Benjamin Franklin, a new documentary that explores the life of the scientist, inventor, writer, diplomat, and signer of Declaration of Independence and Constitution. Watch now

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The Most Obscure Amendment?

by NCC Staff | Read time: 2 minutes

"On March 29, 1961, Ohio and Kansas voted to ratify the Constitution’s 23rd Amendment. Today, that amendment remains obscure and still controversial to a small, but critical, group of Americans. ..." Read more

A Tale of a Giant Cheese Wheel, a Loaf of Bread and the First Amendment

by Scott Bomboy | Read time: 4 minutes

"Today marks an interesting anniversary in U.S. history—the first known appearance of a huge loaf of bread at the White House, as a tribute to an equally giant, politically charged cheese wheel that symbolized the First Amendment. ..." Read more

The 19th Amendment: Suffragists Change Tactics (1878-1916)

This online Google Arts and Culture exhibit—part two of a three-part series—mirrors the second section of the National Constitution Center's exhibit, The 19th Amendment: How Women Won the Vote. Learn more about the decades that followed the passage of the 15th Amendment as the suffragists reassess their tactics. Explore now

The First Amendment

"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances."

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