Domestic Violence Laws and Gun Rights

Run time: 50 minutes

Second Amendment experts Amy Swearer and Adam Winkler join to analyze the decision in United States v. Rahimi, where the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit struck down as unconstitutional a decades-old law barring people subject to domestic violence restraining orders from possessing firearms. Listen now

Amendment Reform in America and Abroad

Run time: 56 minutes

Wilfred Codrington, Chief Judge Jeffrey Sutton, and Rosalind Dixon survey the constitutional amendment process around the world to cast light on our debates in the U.S. Watch now

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A Salute to the Four Founding Fathers Born in Ireland

by NCC Staff | Read time: 2 minutes

“When the Constitutional Convention met in Philadelphia in 1787, half of its foreign-born delegates were born in Ireland. For St. Patrick’s Day, here’s a look at these forgotten figures. ...” Read more

The Last Time Congress Created a New State

by NCC Staff | Read time: 3 minutes

“On March 12, 1959, Congress approved Hawaii for admission to the union as the 50th state, marking the last time statehood was subject to votes in the House and Senate. ...” Read more

Harriet Scott: The Woman Behind Dred Scott v. Sandford

From the We the People archives, we uncover the life of Harriet Scott, the wife and co-plaintiff of Dred Scott in the infamous case Dred Scott v. Sanford, in which the Supreme Court held that African Americans were not citizens of the United States. This divisive case greatly influenced the outcome of the next presidential election and the South’s eventual secession from the Union, leading to the Civil War. Although much is known about the case itself, little attention has been devoted to Harriet Scott and her husband, the people who brought the case before the Court and lived with the devastating consequences. Listen now

The Second Amendment

“A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.”

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