Why the Text of the Constitution Still Persists Today

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Channel: FORA.tv · 2012 · News & Politics

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Akhil Amar, Sterling Professor of Law and Political Science at Yale University, talks about the legacy of the Constitution, and the conscious choices the framers designed into the document in 1776.

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