With the writing of the Constitution in 1787, the framers set out a young nation’s highest ideals. And ever since, we’ve been fighting over it — what is in it and what was left out. At the heart of these arguments is the story of America. As a follow-up to the popular Washington Post podcast “Presidential,” reporter Lillian Cunningham returns with this series exploring the Constitution and the people who framed and reframed it — revolutionaries, abolitionists, suffragists, teetotalers, protesters, justices, presidents – in the ongoing struggle to form a more perfect union across a vast and diverse land.
Introducing 'Constitutional'
Framed
Ancestry
Nationality
Race
Gender
Senate and states
Congress and citizens
Fair trials
Fair punishment
Love
War
The common defense
Taxes
Prohibition
Privacy
The First Amendment
Ourselves and our posterity