Your Weekly Constitutional
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Your Weekly Constitutional
Produced in partnership with James Madison's Montpelier, Your Weekly Constitutional is a public radio show featuring lively discussion of controversial constitutional topics, from Gay Rights to Gun Rights. Find us on Facebook and iTunes!
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Episode 1: Good Night . . . and Good Luck
Well, it's been ten years. A good run. But all things must come to an end.
The Constitution and 2020 - WETS Fundraiser
At last! A new episode!
Well, kinda. We're not yet resuming production (sorry), but Wayne and Stewart got together via Skype to discuss...
A Tale of Two Papers
Two of Stewart's students join us to discuss papers they wrote for his constitutional seminars.
First, Jennifer Bolt tells us about the h...
The Deep State
Is there such a thing? Well, there’s certainly something called the Administrative State, governed by something called administrative law. Stewart’s...
Presidential Smackdown! Andrew Jackson v. Donald Trump
Donald Trump likes to compare himself to Andrew Jackson. So do his supporters. So do his opponents, for very different reasons.
Are any...
Exonerated! Part Two
This is Part Two of a two-part episode.
In Part One, we told you about Kristine Bunch, who experienced the worst thing that could happen...
Exonerated! Part One
Kristine Bunch experienced the worst thing that could happen to any parent: the death of her son, Tony.
But then things got worse. Much...
The First Impeachment
Nope. Not Andrew Johnson. It's a guy named William Blount, who was kicked out of the United States Senate more than two hundred years ago.
Okay, Brexit. What Now?
Well, it happened. Brexit, that is. As of January 31, 2020, the UK is no longer a member of the EU.
So . . . what's changed? And what...
Does Tort Reform Violate your Right to a Jury Trial?
Appellate Attorney John Vail recently argued a case in the Tennessee Supreme Court presenting a very important issue: Does Tennessee’s $750,000 cap on...
Defying the President
Remember the parade last fall? The parade of high federal officials lining up to testify before Congress in the impeachment inquiry?
Now...
Fault Lines in the Constitution
Sanford Levinson is a law professor from Texas who is very critical of our Constitution’s “structural flaws.” We interviewed him several years ago on...
Why Impeach Donald Trump?
Donald Trump often claims that some folks have been trying to impeach him since the day he was sworn in. He's right.
Stewart speaks wi...
The Ethically-Constrained President
No, not our current president. Another one, perhaps the greatest in our history: Abraham Lincoln.
Lincoln was anti-slavery, but he did...
Impeachment in Context
The air is, once again, heavy with talk of impeachment. It’s happened three times before (if you count Richard Nixon’s resignation, which you should)....
Virginia in the Vanguard
Recently, Stewart attended a conference at Montpelier focused upon the essential role that Virginia has played in establishing and maintaining represe...
Fighting White Supremacy
“Domestic terrorism” has been in the news a lot lately. Many of the mass shootings we’ve recently experienced seem to have been motivated, at least in...
Tariff Man!
Donald Trump calls himself Tariff Man, and he certainly seems to enjoy waging his trade wars. Has he exceeded his constitutional authority? What, pr...
ERA in VA: The Battle Continues
Earlier this year, we told you about the push for Virginia to become the final necessary state to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment. That hasn't happ...
Democracy and Truth
Sophia Rosenfeld is a historian at the University of Pennsylvania. She's published an incisive and timely book about the fraught relationship between...
Sacred Liberty
Steven Waldman has been writing about religion and spirituality for a long time. He is the co-founder of Beliefnet, a website devoted to such issues....
Jawing with Jemmy and Bantering With Bryan
Recently, Montpelier installed a time machine in the Potter Family Studios. Stewart had the honor of being the first to try it. So, of course, he se...
Constitutional Migration
Birds migrate. So do monarch butterflies. And so do constitutions.
So says A.E. "Dick" Howard, the White Burkett Miller Professor of La...
Brexit Update, 2019, Part Two
We finish our two-part interview with our go-to guy on all things Brexit, British barrister William Walton of the University of Hertfordshire.
...
Brexit Update, 2019, Part One
The Queen has suspended Parliament at the request of Prime Minister Boris Johnson. Is this the end of British democracy? Or just another quirk of th...
The Overseer's Cabin
Matthew Reeves, the Director of Archaeology at James Madison's Montpelier, tells us about his next big project: the reconstruction of the overseer's c...
Vote for Us
Josh Douglas teaches at the University of Kentucky, where he studies voting in the United States. Despite the current political environment, he sees...
The Transgender Ban
Is the ban on military service for transgender people unconstitutional?
Eric Merriam thinks so. He’s a law professor at the University o...
Abortion Update, 2019
What’s up with all the new laws on abortion? What do they contain? Why now?
Mary Ziegler, a law professor at Florida State University,...
How to Save the Supreme Court
Does the Supreme Court need saving?
Ganesh Sitaraman thinks so. He teaches constitutional law at Vanderbilt University, and, like many...
The Clinton 12
A year before Little Rock, twelve brave African-American students in Clinton, Tennessee, participated in the first court-ordered integration of an all...
Obstruction of Justice and the Omnipresnt OLC
Ever since the release of the Mueller Report, we’ve all been hearing about something called “obstruction of justice.” But what, precisely, does that...
Seven Steps toward Revitalizing American Democracy
Many people bemoan the growing gaps in wealth and income in our country, as well as their negative effects on our political discourse and our trust in...
The Trials of Nina McCall
You’re young, innocent, female. Perhaps 18 years old. You’re walking down the street in your hometown on a fine spring day.
A car pulls...
Closin' Down Colleges
Professor Pat Baker of the University of Tennessee at Martin has noticed something troubling about small private colleges. They’re closing down. At an...
Crushin' on Jemmy
Linda Monk has been on our show before, to discuss her wonderful books, "The Words We Live By" and "The Bill of Rights: A User's Guide." She was also...
Congressional Oversight
Since the Democrats overwhelmed the House of Representatives with their Blue Wave, there’s been a lot of talk about investigations and hearings.
National Emergency? What National Emergency?
Andrew Boyle works for the Liberty and National Security Program at the Brennan Center for Justice. He and Stewart start at the very beginning of a ve...
The Schoolhouse Gate
Justin Driver is a law professor at the University of Chicago. He is concerned about the extent to which public school students are paddled, searched,...
Second Amendment Update, 2019
We haven't heard much from the Supreme Court lately on the Second Amendment. That may soon change. So the Law Review at Lincoln Memorial University’...