Constitutionally Speaking
78 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 2 years ago - ★★★★★ - 641 ratingsHow does the U.S. Constitution work?
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Episodes
Episode 28: Introducing the Bill of Rights
August 28, 2018 10:00 - 1 hour - 45 MBIn this episode, Jay and Luke introduce the principles underpinning the Bill of Rights.
Episode 27: The Rise of the Political Parties
August 20, 2018 20:53 - 1 hour - 48.1 MBIn this episode of Constitutionally Speaking, Jay and Luke discuss the rise of the political parties.
Episode 26: The Price of Greatness, Part 3
July 13, 2018 10:00 - 1 hour - 54.6 MBIn this episode, Jay and Luke finish their discussion of Jay’s new book, 'The Price of Greatness: Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and the Creation of American Oligarchy. They focus on politics and policy during the Age of Jefferson and beyond.'
Episode 25: The Price of Greatness: Part 2
June 25, 2018 10:00 - 1 hour - 75.8 MBIn this episode of Constitutionally Speaking, Jay and Luke continue their discussion of Jay’s new book, 'The Price of Greatness: Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and the Creation of American Oligarchy.'
Episode 24: The Price of Greatness, Part 1
June 04, 2018 13:38 - 1 hour - 65.8 MBIn this episode of Constitutionally Speaking, Jay and Luke discuss Jay’s new book, 'The Price of Greatness: Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and the Creation of American Oligarchy.'
Episode 23: 1789
May 28, 2018 13:40 - 1 hour - 87.6 MBIn this episode of Constitutionally Speaking, Jay and Luke examine the first session of the First Congress, which met from the spring through the fall of 1789.
Episode 22: The First Federal Election
May 15, 2018 13:42 - 31 minutes - 31.5 MBIn this episode of Constitutionally Speaking, Jay and Luke discuss the first federal election, held in 1788-1789.
Episode 21: Ratification, Part 4: Virginia and New York
April 19, 2018 13:43 - 1 hour - 64.9 MBIn this episode of Constitutionally Speaking, Jay and Luke finish their discussion of the ratification debates with a look at Virginia and New York.
Episode 20: Ratification, Part 3: New Hampshire, North Carolina, and Rhode Island
March 30, 2018 13:45 - 1 hour - 78.1 MBIn this week’s episode of Constitutionally Speaking, Jay and Luke continue their discussion of ratification.
Episode 19: Ratification, Part 2: Amendments!
March 15, 2018 13:46 - 1 hour - 75.4 MBIn this episode of Constitutionally Speaking, Jay and Luke continue their review of the ratifying conventions.
Episode 18: Ratification, Part 1: Big Wins for the Federalists
March 09, 2018 14:48 - 1 hour - 64.7 MBIn this episode of Constitutionally Speaking, Jay and Luke begin their discussion of ratification.
Episode 17: Evaluating the Anti-Federalists
February 27, 2018 14:49 - 1 hour - 64.4 MBIn this episode of Constitutionally Speaking, Jay and Luke finish their discussion of the Anti-Federalists by asking: What did they get right?
Episode 16: To Save the Republic
February 13, 2018 14:50 - 1 hour - 61.3 MBIn this episode of Constitutionally Speaking, Jay and Luke continue their discussion of the Anti-Federalists.
Episode 15: Like a Beacon
February 06, 2018 14:52 - 58 minutes - 55.9 MBIn this week’s episode of Constitutionally Speaking, Jay and Luke continue their discussion of the Anti-Federalists.
Episode 14: Introducing the Anti-Federalists
January 29, 2018 14:52 - 50 minutes - 49.6 MBIn this episode of Constitutionally Speaking, Jay and Luke discuss the Anti-Federalists, the politicians and polemicists who opposed the Constitution during the ratification debate of 1787-1788.
Episode 13: Hamilton’s Executive
January 23, 2018 14:54 - 1 hour - 60.6 MBIn this episode of Constitutionally Speaking, Jay and Luke discuss Alexander Hamilton’s theory of the executive branch.
Episode 12: Write It Down!
January 09, 2018 14:55 - 58 minutes - 56.7 MBIn this episode, Jay and Luke discuss the importance of a written Constitution.
Episode 11: The Congressional Beast
January 02, 2018 14:56 - 37 minutes - 36.9 MBIn this episode of Constitutionally Speaking, Jay and Luke take on the myth that our government is one of “co-equal branches.”
Episode 10: The Electoral College
December 18, 2017 14:57 - 52 minutes - 51 MBIn this week’s episode of Constitutionally Speaking, Jay and Luke discuss the Electoral College, the Rube Goldberg device the Founding Fathers created to select the president.
Episode 9: Slavery and the Constitution
December 11, 2017 14:58 - 1 hour - 71.1 MBIn this episode of Constitutionally Speaking, Jay and Luke discuss the role that slavery played at the Constitutional Convention.
Episode 8: The Great Compromise
December 04, 2017 15:00 - 1 hour - 61.8 MBIn this week’s episode of Constitutionally Speaking, Jay and Luke discuss opposition against the Virginia Plan at the Constitutional Convention.
Episode 7: A National Union?
November 20, 2017 15:01 - 58 minutes - 56.2 MBIn this episode of Constitutionally Speaking, Jay and Luke discuss the first two weeks of the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia, where the nationalists — led by James Madison and James Wilson — make remarkable headway in crafting a new government in late May and early June 1787.
Episode 6: On to Philadelphia!
November 13, 2017 15:02 - 1 hour - 64.7 MBIn this week’s episode of Constitutionally Speaking, Jay and Luke begin their review of the Constitutional Convention, held in Philadelphia during the spring and summer of 1787.
Episode 5: Alexander Hamilton, the Enfant Terrible
November 06, 2017 15:03 - 1 hour - 89.4 MBIn this episode of Constitutionally Speaking, Jay and Luke discuss the views of Alexander Hamilton.
Episode 4: James Madison: The Man with the Plan
October 30, 2017 14:05 - 1 hour - 86 MBIn this episode, Jay and Luke discuss the political philosophy of James Madison, the author of the “Virginia Plan” of government submitted to the Constitutional Convention.
Episode 3: America’s Mulligan
October 23, 2017 14:07 - 1 hour - 70.5 MBIn this episode of Constitutionally Speaking, Jay and Luke continue to discuss the Articles of Confederation (a.k.a. America’s Mulligan), arguing that there were two major failures.
Episode 2: What’s So Bad about the Articles of Confederation?
October 16, 2017 13:45 - 41 minutes - 40 MBIn the second episode of Constitutionally Speaking, Jay Cost and Luke Thompson look at the Articles of Confederation, the first government of the United States.
Episode 1: Why the Constitution Matters
October 09, 2017 14:10 - 37 minutes - 35.2 MBIn this inaugural episode of Constitutionally Speaking, Jay Cost and Luke Thompson make the case for the average American to study the Constitution.