Live at America's Town Hall

In the 13th Annual John M. Templeton, Jr. Lecture on Economic Liberties and the Constitution, former New York City Schools Chancellor Joel Klein explores the problems plaguing public education and offers a blueprint for how they can be solved. Jason Riley, senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute and columnist for The Wall Street Journal, moderates a conversation after the lecture. (March 10, 2016) Get the latest constitutional news, and continue the conversation, on Facebook and Twitter. We want to know what you think of the podcast! Email us at editor@constitutioncenter.org. Please subscribe to Live at America's Town Hall on iTunes. While you’re there, leave us a review—it helps other people discover what we do. Please also subscribe to We the People, a weekly show in which the Center's Jeffrey Rosen calls up the best legal minds in the United States to debate the most hotly contested issues in constitutional law. Despite our congressional charter, the National Constitution Center is a private nonprofit—we receive little government support, and we rely on the generosity of people around the country who are inspired by our nonpartisan mission of constitutional debate and education. Please consider becoming a member to support our work, including this podcast. Visit constitutioncenter.org to learn more. This show was engineered by Jason Gregory and produced by Nicandro Iannacci. Our manager of national programs is Tanaya Neal. Our president and CEO is Jeffrey Rosen.

On March 9, National Constitution Center president and CEO Jeffrey Rosen spoke at the Supreme Court in a special event honoring “the Great Chief Justice,” John Marshall.

Communications scholar Geoffrey Cowan and presidential historian David Greenberg offer a behind-the-scenes look at the history and influence of the presidential campaign—from Theodore Roosevelt and the first presidential primary to today. Jeffrey Rosen, National Constitution Center president and CEO, moderates. (February 25, 2016) Get the latest constitutional news, and continue the conversation, on Facebook and Twitter. We want to know what you think of the podcast! Email us at editor@constitutioncenter.org. Please subscribe to Live at America's Town Hall on iTunes. While you’re there, leave us a review—it helps other people discover what we do. Please also subscribe to We the People, a weekly show in which the Center's Jeffrey Rosen calls up the best legal minds in the United States to debate the most hotly contested issues in constitutional law. Despite our congressional charter, the National Constitution Center is a private nonprofit—we receive little government support, and we rely on the generosity of people around the country who are inspired by our nonpartisan mission of constitutional debate and education. Please consider becoming a member to support our work, including this podcast. Visit constitutioncenter.org to learn more. This show was engineered by Jason Gregory and produced by Nicandro Iannacci. Our manager of national programs is Tanaya Neal. Our president and CEO is Jeffrey Rosen.

Leading election law scholars Edward B. Foley and Richard L. Hasen offer their critical take on how the structure of the American political system came to be. Judge Jeremy Fogel, Senior Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California and Director of the Federal Judicial Center, moderates. (February 18, 2016) Get the latest constitutional news, and continue the conversation, on Facebook and Twitter. We want to know what you think of the podcast! Email us at editor@constitutioncenter.org. Please subscribe to Live at America's Town Hall on iTunes. While you’re there, leave us a review—it helps other people discover what we do. Please also subscribe to We the People, a weekly show in which the Center's Jeffrey Rosen calls up the best legal minds in the United States to debate the most hotly contested issues in constitutional law. Despite our congressional charter, the National Constitution Center is a private nonprofit—we receive little government support, and we rely on the generosity of people around the country who are inspired by our nonpartisan mission of constitutional debate and education. Please consider becoming a member to support our work, including this podcast. Visit constitutioncenter.org to learn more. This show was engineered by Jason Gregory and produced by Nicandro Iannacci. Our manager of national programs is Tanaya Neal. Our president and CEO is Jeffrey Rosen.

After the House declined to pass a Senate immigration bill, President Obama used his executive authority to defer the deportation of millions of immigrants living in the U.S. illegally. Is the President’s policy unconstitutional? Join us for this debate featuring celebrated constitutional scholars Josh Blackman, Adam Cox, Cristina Rodriguez, and Nicholas Quinn Rosenkranz. Jeffrey Rosen, National Constitution Center president and CEO, moderates. (February 16, 2016) Get the latest constitutional news, and continue the conversation, on Facebook and Twitter. We want to know what you think of the podcast! Email us at editor@constitutioncenter.org. Please subscribe to Live at America's Town Hall on iTunes. While you’re there, leave us a review—it helps other people discover what we do. Please also subscribe to We the People, a weekly show in which the Center's Jeffrey Rosen calls up the best legal minds in the United States to debate the most hotly contested issues in constitutional law. Despite our congressional charter, the National Constitution Center is a private nonprofit—we receive little government support, and we rely on the generosity of people around the country who are inspired by our nonpartisan mission of constitutional debate and education. Please consider becoming a member to support our work, including this podcast. Visit constitutioncenter.org to learn more. This show was engineered by Jason Gregory and produced by Nicandro Iannacci. Our manager of national programs is Tanaya Neal. Our president and CEO is Jeffrey Rosen.

Top presidential historians Annette Gordon-Reed and Geoffrey Ward talk about the history of presidential campaigning, what we can learn from past elections, and their take on the current state of our presidential electoral process. Jeffrey Rosen, National Constitution Center president and CEO, moderates. (February 11, 2016) Get the latest constitutional news, and continue the conversation, on Facebook and Twitter. We want to know what you think of the podcast! Email us at editor@constitutioncenter.org. Please subscribe to Live at America's Town Hall on iTunes. While you’re there, leave us a review—it helps other people discover what we do. Please also subscribe to We the People, a weekly show in which the Center's Jeffrey Rosen calls up the best legal minds in the United States to debate the most hotly contested issues in constitutional law. Despite our congressional charter, the National Constitution Center is a private nonprofit—we receive little government support, and we rely on the generosity of people around the country who are inspired by our nonpartisan mission of constitutional debate and education. Please consider becoming a member to support our work, including this podcast. Visit constitutioncenter.org to learn more. This show was engineered by Jason Gregory and produced by Nicandro Iannacci. Our manager of national programs is Tanaya Neal. Our president and CEO is Jeffrey Rosen.

Dean Reuter of the Federalist Society and John Yoo, legal scholar and former Justice Department official, are joined by former White House Counsel C. Boyden Gray and Center for Equal Opportunity President Linda Chavez to discuss why the concentration of power in administrative agencies may be the greatest threat to our liberties today. Daniel Austin Green, Director of Individual Freedom and Free Markets at the John Templeton Foundation, moderates. (February 8, 2016) Get the latest constitutional news, and continue the conversation, on Facebook and Twitter. We want to know what you think of the podcast! Email us at editor@constitutioncenter.org. Please subscribe to Live at America's Town Hall on iTunes. While you’re there, leave us a review—it helps other people discover what we do. Please also subscribe to We the People, a weekly show in which the Center's Jeffrey Rosen calls up the best legal minds in the United States to debate the most hotly contested issues in constitutional law. Despite our congressional charter, the National Constitution Center is a private nonprofit—we receive little government support, and we rely on the generosity of people around the country who are inspired by our nonpartisan mission of constitutional debate and education. Please consider becoming a member to support our work, including this podcast. Visit constitutioncenter.org to learn more. This show was engineered by Jason Gregory and produced by Nicandro Iannacci. Our manager of national programs is Tanaya Neal. Our president and CEO is Jeffrey Rosen.

Acclaimed legal scholar and judge, Guido Calabresi discusses his new book, The Future of Law and Economics: Essays in Reform and Recollection. Michael J. Gerhardt, professor of constitutional law at the University of North Carolina School of Law and the National Constitution Center’s scholar-in-residence, moderates. (February 1, 2016) Get the latest constitutional news, and continue the conversation, on Facebook and Twitter. We want to know what you think of the podcast! Email us at editor@constitutioncenter.org. Please subscribe to Live at America's Town Hall on iTunes. While you’re there, leave us a review—it helps other people discover what we do. Please also subscribe to We the People, a weekly show in which the Center's Jeffrey Rosen calls up the best legal minds in the United States to debate the most hotly contested issues in constitutional law. Despite our congressional charter, the National Constitution Center is a private nonprofit—we receive little government support, and we rely on the generosity of people around the country who are inspired by our nonpartisan mission of constitutional debate and education. Please consider becoming a member to support our work, including this podcast. Visit constitutioncenter.org to learn more. This show was engineered by Jason Gregory and produced by Nicandro Iannacci. Our manager of national programs is Tanaya Neal. Our president and CEO is Jeffrey Rosen.

Former U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert Gates returns to the National Constitution Center to discuss his new book, A Passion for Leadership—an urgent assessment of why big institutions are failing us and how smart leadership can affect real improvement. Barbara Starr, Pentagon correspondent for CNN, moderates. (January 21, 2016) Get the latest constitutional news, and continue the conversation, on Facebook and Twitter. We want to know what you think of the podcast! Email us at editor@constitutioncenter.org. Please subscribe to Live at America's Town Hall on iTunes. While you’re there, leave us a review—it helps other people discover what we do. Please also subscribe to We the People, a weekly show in which the Center's Jeffrey Rosen calls up the best legal minds in the United States to debate the most hotly contested issues in constitutional law. Despite our congressional charter, the National Constitution Center is a private nonprofit—we receive little government support, and we rely on the generosity of people around the country who are inspired by our nonpartisan mission of constitutional debate and education. Please consider becoming a member to support our work, including this podcast. Visit constitutioncenter.org to learn more. This show was engineered by Jason Gregory and Kevin Kilbourne. It was produced by Nicandro Iannacci. Our manager of national programs is Tanaya Neal. Our president and CEO is Jeffrey Rosen.

In this special episode recorded in Chicago, Illinois, the Center brings together scholars from the Federalist Society and the American Constitution Society for a debate on the history and meaning of the Second Amendment. The participants are Michael O'Shea of the Oklahoma City University School of Law and Carl Bogus of the Roger Williams University School of Law. Jeffrey Rosen, president and CEO of the Center, moderates. (November 19, 2015) Get the latest constitutional news, and continue the conversation, on Facebook and Twitter. We want to know what you think of the podcast! Email us at editor@constitutioncenter.org. Please subscribe to Live at America's Town Hall on iTunes. While you’re there, leave us a review—it helps other people discover what we do. Please also subscribe to We the People, a weekly show in which the Center's Jeffrey Rosen calls up the best legal minds in the United States to debate the most hotly contested issues in constitutional law. Despite our congressional charter, the National Constitution Center is a private nonprofit—we receive little government support, and we rely on the generosity of people around the country who are inspired by our nonpartisan mission of constitutional debate and education. Please consider becoming a member to support our work, including this podcast. Visit constitutioncenter.org to learn more. This show was engineered by Jason Gregory and produced by Nicandro Iannacci. Our manager of national programs is Tanaya Neal. Our president and CEO is Jeffrey Rosen.

The United States is home to less than five percent of the world’s people, yet it bears 25 percent of the world’s imprisoned. Are we living in an age of over-criminalization? And is our criminal justice system good for business? In this special episode recorded in Grand Rapids, Michigan, Jeffrey Rosen, president and CEO of the Center, moderates a conversation with Mark Holden, senior vice president and general counsel at Koch Industries, Inc., and Edwin Meese III, former U.S. attorney general and Ronald Reagan distinguished fellow emeritus at The Heritage Foundation. (October 19, 2015) Get the latest constitutional news, and continue the conversation, on Facebook and Twitter. We want to know what you think of the podcast! Email us at editor@constitutioncenter.org. Please subscribe to Live at America's Town Hall on iTunes. While you’re there, leave us a review—it helps other people discover what we do. Please also subscribe to We the People, a weekly show in which the Center's Jeffrey Rosen calls up the best legal minds in the United States to debate the most hotly contested issues in constitutional law. Despite our congressional charter, the National Constitution Center is a private nonprofit—we receive little government support, and we rely on the generosity of people around the country who are inspired by our nonpartisan mission of constitutional debate and education. Please consider becoming a member to support our work, including this podcast. Visit constitutioncenter.org to learn more. This show was engineered by Jason Gregory and produced by Nicandro Iannacci. Our manager of national programs is Tanaya Neal. Our president and CEO is Jeffrey Rosen.

In the final part of the Center's 2015 Bill of Rights Day Book Festival, Sanford Levinson of the University of Texas at Austin School of Law, one of America’s most distinguished constitutional scholars, uses the lens of the Federalist Papers to examine 21st-century issues. Jeffrey Rosen, president and CEO of the Center, moderates. (December 15, 2015) Get the latest constitutional news, and continue the conversation, on Facebook and Twitter. We want to know what you think of the podcast! Email us at editor@constitutioncenter.org. Please subscribe to Live at America's Town Hall on iTunes. While you’re there, leave us a review—it helps other people discover what we do. Please also subscribe to We the People, a weekly show in which the Center's Jeffrey Rosen calls up the best legal minds in the United States to debate the most hotly contested issues in constitutional law. Despite our congressional charter, the National Constitution Center is a private nonprofit—we receive little government support, and we rely on the generosity of people around the country who are inspired by our nonpartisan mission of constitutional debate and education. Please consider becoming a member to support our work, including this podcast. Visit constitutioncenter.org to learn more. This show was engineered by Jason Gregory and produced by Nicandro Iannacci. Our manager of national programs is Tanaya Neal. Our president and CEO is Jeffrey Rosen.

In the third part of the Center's 2015 Bill of Rights Day Book Festival, revered judicial authority Melvin Urofsky of Virginia Commonwealth University looks at the history of dissent at the Supreme Court. Jeffrey Rosen, president and CEO of the Center, moderates. (December 15, 2015) Get the latest constitutional news, and continue the conversation, on Facebook and Twitter. We want to know what you think of the podcast! Email us at editor@constitutioncenter.org. Please subscribe to Live at America's Town Hall on iTunes. While you’re there, leave us a review—it helps other people discover what we do. Please also subscribe to We the People, a weekly show in which the Center's Jeffrey Rosen calls up the best legal minds in the United States to debate the most hotly contested issues in constitutional law. Despite our congressional charter, the National Constitution Center is a private nonprofit—we receive little government support, and we rely on the generosity of people around the country who are inspired by our nonpartisan mission of constitutional debate and education. Please consider becoming a member to support our work, including this podcast. Visit constitutioncenter.org to learn more. This show was engineered by Jason Gregory and produced by Nicandro Iannacci. Our manager of national programs is Tanaya Neal. Our president and CEO is Jeffrey Rosen.

In the second part of the Center's 2015 Bill of Rights Day Book Festival, law professor and distinguished scholar Mary Sarah Bilder of Boston College Law School offers new evidence and analysis of James Madison’s notes on the Constitutional Convention. Michael J. Gerhardt, professor of law at the University of North Carolina School of Law and the Center’s scholar-in-residence, moderates. (December 15, 2015) Get the latest constitutional news, and continue the conversation, on Facebook and Twitter. We want to know what you think of the podcast! Email us at editor@constitutioncenter.org. Please subscribe to Live at America's Town Hall on iTunes. While you’re there, leave us a review—it helps other people discover what we do. Please also subscribe to We the People, a weekly show in which the Center's Jeffrey Rosen calls up the best legal minds in the United States to debate the most hotly contested issues in constitutional law. Despite our congressional charter, the National Constitution Center is a private nonprofit—we receive little government support, and we rely on the generosity of people around the country who are inspired by our nonpartisan mission of constitutional debate and education. Please consider becoming a member to support our work, including this podcast. Visit constitutioncenter.org to learn more. This show was engineered by Jason Gregory and produced by Nicandro Iannacci. Our manager of national programs is Tanaya Neal. Our president and CEO is Jeffrey Rosen.

In the first part of the Center's 2015 Bill of Rights Day Book Festival, constitutional law and comparative constitutionalism expert A.E. Dick Howard of the University of Virginia School of Law gives a history of Magna Carta in honor of its 800th anniversary. (December 15, 2015) Get the latest constitutional news, and continue the conversation, on Facebook and Twitter. We want to know what you think of the podcast! Email us at editor@constitutioncenter.org. Please subscribe to Live at America's Town Hall on iTunes. While you’re there, leave us a review—it helps other people discover what we do. Please also subscribe to We the People, a weekly show in which the Center's Jeffrey Rosen calls up the best legal minds in the United States to debate the most hotly contested issues in constitutional law. Despite our congressional charter, the National Constitution Center is a private nonprofit—we receive little government support, and we rely on the generosity of people around the country who are inspired by our nonpartisan mission of constitutional debate and education. Please consider becoming a member to support our work, including this podcast. Visit constitutioncenter.org to learn more. This show was engineered by Jason Gregory and produced by Nicandro Iannacci. Our manager of national programs is Tanaya Neal. Our president and CEO is Jeffrey Rosen.