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[https://www.pbs.org/newshour/classroom/daily-news-lessons/2025/09/two-perspectives-on-originalism-and-the-constitution by PBS Shows 22/9/25] | [https://www.pbs.org/newshour/classroom/daily-news-lessons/2025/09/two-perspectives-on-originalism-and-the-constitution by PBS Shows 22/9/25] | ||
In two conversations about that debate, News Hour discussed ways the Supreme Court and others have interpreted the document through the centuries. One interpretation, originalism, is often countered by the idea that the Constitution is a living, breathing document meant to be interpreted and changed along with the times. | In two conversations about that debate, News Hour discussed ways the Supreme Court and others have interpreted the document through the centuries. One interpretation, originalism, is often countered by the idea that the Constitution is a living, breathing document meant to be interpreted and changed along with the times. | ||
=====Popular NPR Host Hits the Road to Explore America’s Most Revered — and Misunderstood — Document | |||
Premiering Spring 2013 on PBS===== | |||
[https://www.pbs.org/about/about-pbs/blogs/news/pbs-to-present-constitution-usa-with-peter-sagal/ by pbs publicity 17/8/20 PBS] | |||
LOS ANGELES, CA -- JULY 21, 2012 -- CONSTITUTION USA with Peter Sagal takes to the road for a fresh and surprising journey through the 4,418 words — and 27 amendments — that made America. Breathing new life into the traditional civics lesson, Peter Sagal, host of NPR’s popular “Wait, Wait … Don’t Tell Me” travels across country on a Harley Davidson to find out where the Constitution lives, how it works and how it doesn’t … how it unites us as a nation, and how it has nearly torn us apart. | |||
“The Constitution was, and is, an imperfect document, and its strength lies in the ongoing arguments about its meaning, as much as what’s in the original text,” Sagal says. “I’m looking forward to digging into this stuff … And also, getting to ride a motorcycle.” | |||
