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[https://www.zinnedproject.org/materials/the-constitutional-bind/ by ZINN EDUCATION EDUCATION] | [https://www.zinnedproject.org/materials/the-constitutional-bind/ by ZINN EDUCATION EDUCATION] | ||
Some in the United States today worry that the Federal Constitution is ill-equipped to respond to mounting democratic threats and may even exacerbate the worst features of U.S. politics. Yet for as long as anyone can remember, the Constitution has occupied a quasi-mythical status in U.S. political culture, which ties ideals of liberty and equality to assumptions about the inherent goodness of the text’s design. The Constitutional Bind explores how a flawed document came to be so glorified and how this has impacted life in the United States. | Some in the United States today worry that the Federal Constitution is ill-equipped to respond to mounting democratic threats and may even exacerbate the worst features of U.S. politics. Yet for as long as anyone can remember, the Constitution has occupied a quasi-mythical status in U.S. political culture, which ties ideals of liberty and equality to assumptions about the inherent goodness of the text’s design. The Constitutional Bind explores how a flawed document came to be so glorified and how this has impacted life in the United States. | ||
=====CONSTITUTION USA===== | |||
[https://www.pbs.org/tpt/constitution-usa-peter-sagal/about/ by PBS Shows] | |||
CONSTITUTION USA, a production of the Emmy and Peabody Award-winning team of tptNational Productions and Insignia Films, is hosted by Peter Sagal, the smart, sharp-witted star of NPR’s popular Wait Wait… Don’t Tell Me!. Over the course of the four-hour series, Sagal hits the road, travelling cross country on a customized red, white and blue Harley-Davidson, to find out where the Constitution lives, how it works, and how it unites us as a nation. | |||
