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George Will on Madisonian Government

May 24, 2018

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This week, during a symposium held at the National Constitution Center, We the People host Jeffrey Rosen sat down with George Will, Pulitzer-prize winning columnist for The Washington Post, to discuss federalism, the 17th Amendment, and the state of American politics today. This America’s Town Hall program was made possible through the generosity of John Aglialoro.

This podcast is presented as part of the National Constitution Center’s A Madisonian Constitution for All initiative and made possible through the generous support of the John Templeton Foundation.

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George Will writes a twice-weekly column on politics and domestic and foreign affairs for The Washington Post. He began his column with The Washington Post in 1974, and he received the Pulitzer Prize for Commentary in 1977.

 

Jeffrey Rosen is the President and Chief Executive Officer of the National Constitution Center, the only institution in America chartered by Congress “to disseminate information about the United States Constitution on a nonpartisan basis.” 

 


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