Earlier this year, the National Constitution Center hosted an event in Miami, Florida, featuring a series of meaningful conversations about the Constitution with speakers of diverse perspectives. In this episode, we’re sharing one of those programs with you: A conversation with four leading constitutional experts about the NCC’s Constitution Drafting Project, the amendment process, Article V, and the future of constitutional reform. The four scholars are: Akhil Reed Amar of Yale Law School, Caroline Fredrickson of Georgetown Law, David French of The New York Times, and Ramesh Ponnuru of National Review. Host Jeffrey Rosen moderates.
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Participants
Akhil Reed Amar is Sterling Professor of Law and Political Science at Yale University, where he teaches constitutional law in both Yale College and Yale Law School. He is also the host of the Amarica’s Constitution podcast. Amar is the author of numerous landmark works on constitutional law and history, the most recent of which is: The Words That Made Us: America’s Constitutional Conversation, 1760-1840.
Caroline Fredrickson is a distinguished visitor from practice at Georgetown law Center and a senior fellow at the Brennan Center for Justice. Before joining Georgetown, she served as the president of the American Constitution Society. She is the author of several books, including The Democracy Fix: How to Win the Fight for Fair Rules, Fair Courts, and Fair Elections, and most recently The AOC Way.
David French joined The New York Times as an opinion columnist in January 2023. Before that, he was a senior editor at The Dispatch, which he helped start, and a contributing writer at The Atlantic.
Ramesh Ponnuru is the editor of National Review, a columnist for the Washington Post, and a fellow at the American Enterprise Institute.
Jeffrey Rosen is the president and CEO of the National Constitution Center, a nonpartisan nonprofit organization devoted to educating the public about the U.S. Constitution. Rosen is also professor of law at The George Washington University Law School and a contributing editor of The Atlantic.
Additional Resources
- National Constitution Center’s Constitution Drafting Project
Transcript
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