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Supreme Court Will Hear Case on Money in Politics

Another big scene is coming up in the next term of that nine voice ensemble called the U.S. Supreme Court. The court agreed on Tuesday to hear a case on the limits of campaign contributions made directly to candidates and some political committees. The question for court watchers: Is this court continuing on a path […]

Should Americans Limit Their Speech for the Sake of the Arab Spring?

The World in Words

As Debt Deadline Nears, Partisan Proposals and a Potential Contingency Plan Emerge

The World

Virginia Pols Spearhead Movement for More States’ Rights

Global Politics
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‘We the People’: House to Hear Constitution Read Aloud

Conflict & Justice
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Debating the Constitution, then and now

Conflict & Justice

Historian Pauline Maier shares some of the highlights from the Constitution’s history, and tells us if she thinks it could ever be ratified today. Her research has culminated in a book, ‘Ratification: The People Debate the Constitution 1787-1788.’

The World

Questions on Prop 8, birthright citizenship ignite debate on 14th amendment

Conflict & Justice

We speak with Randall Kennedy, a Professor at Harvard Law School who teaches race relations and the law, about the circumstances around the original passage of the Fourteenth Amendment.

The World

Amending the 14th amendment: if you’re born in the US should you be guaranteed citizenship?

Conflict & Justice

Republicans have been pushing to have hearings to change the 14th Amendment. The Takeaway’s Washington correspondent, Todd Zwillich believes that Republicans are just nibbling around the edges of the whole immigration issue.

The World

The right to sex

Faith shares her thoughts a proposed constitutional amendment in Ecuador that would entitle women to “sexual happiness.”

Jim Crow: The Supreme Court’s Fault?

Immediately after the end of the Civil War, Congress drafted and pushed to ratify the 14th  and 15th amendments to the Constitution, which were intended to guarantee African-Americans full equality under the law.  But despite these amendments, Jim Crow laws quickly took hold of much of the nation, stripping African-Americans of such basic rights as serving on […]