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Podcast: Talking Feds
Episode: The Constitution Was Intended To Be Amended
Description: In the latest conversation in the Talking San Diego series, Harry sits down with Harvard historian and New Yorker writer Jill Lepore in front of a live San Diego audience to discuss Leporeβs important new book, βWe the People: A History of the U.S. Constitution.β The book contains revelations about the importance to the Framers of the Amendment process, which Lepore argues has become a dead letter since the failure of the proposed Equal RIghts Amendment.Β In its stead various generations of Americans have looked to either political events or, more recently, the U.S. Supreme Court, to anno...