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Constitutional Voices: Phillis Wheatley
Throughout her life, poet Phillis Wheatley intersected with several of the nation’s Founding Fathers. Today, her work’s impact…
Constitutional Voices: Charles Sumner
Charles Sumner spent nearly a quarter-century in the United States Senate insisting that the federal government had the power and…
Constitutional Voices: Thaddeus Stevens
Thaddeus Stevens was one of the most consequential and uncompromising figures of nineteenth-century American politics. As a…
Douglass, Du Bois, and Garrison and the Search for a More Plural Constitution
National Constitution Center content fellow Trey Sullivan takes a look at the complicated relationship between William Lloyd…
A look at landmark Supreme Court cases on race and the Constitution
As the U.S. Supreme Court considers two important cases about affirmative action and higher education, Constitution Daily looks at…
