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Podcast: Peculiar Book Club Podcast
Episode: We're following the Law with AJ Jacobs and The Year of Living Constitutionally
Description: A.J. Jacobs learned the hard way that donning a tricorne hat and
marching around Manhattan with a 1700s musket will earn you a lot of
strange looks. In the wake of several controversial rulings by the
Supreme Court and the on-going debate about how the Constitution should
be interpreted, Jacobs set out to understand what it means to live by
the Constitution.
In The Year of Living Constitutionally,
A.J. Jacobs tries to get inside the minds of the Founding Fathers by
living as closely as possible to the original meaning of the
Constitution. He asserts h...