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The Shadows of the Constitution (2020)

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English - September 30, 2021 04:01 - 43 minutes - 39.9 MB - ★★★★★ - 14.4K ratings
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The Constitution is like America's secular bible, our sacred founding document. In her play, What the Constitution Means to Me, Heidi Schreck goes through a process of discovering what the document is really about – who wrote it, who it was for, who it protected and who it didn't. Through Heidi's personal story, we learn how the Constitution and how it has been interpreted have affected not just her family but generations of Americans.

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