Constitution USA with Peter Sagal

Consider the systems that have kept the Constitution healthy for more than 225 years.

Examine what most Americans consider the Constitution’s most important feature: the Bill of Rights.

Take a sneak peak at CONSTUTITUION USA's "A More Perfect Union."

Breathing new life into the traditional civics lesson, Peter Sagal, host of NPR’s "Wait Wait Don’t Tell Me!", travels across the country to find out where the U.S. 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.

Should the federal government tell us what to do? Jody Freeman explains the benefits.

Professor Randy Barnett explains his thoughts on federal power.

Where should the right to free speech end? Peter Sagal explores what the first amendment means.

Learn more about the rights of privacy and how the Constitution plays a role.

Hit the road with Peter Sagal for a look at CONSTITUTION USA.

Historian Richard Beeman explains the issues facing the creation of a new goverment.

Who ensures your rights are protected? Learn how the Clarence Gideon case impacted the right to a fair trial. What did Gideon do to make sure the 6th amendment was protecting him?

In this clip, Stanford University professor and historian Jack Rakove discusses how the framers of the Constitution could have allowed slavery to remain a part of the country, even as they wrote about the merits of liberty.