On the 150th anniversary of the Gettysburg Address, join constitutional scholar and Yale Law professor Akhil Amar, historian and Princeton University professor Sean Wilentz and Jeffrey Rosen of the National Constitution Center for a wide-ranging conversation about the constitutional legacy of Lincoln and the address itself.
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Lincoln and the Gettysburg Address
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