At the 2025 National Lawyers Convention, Yale Law School Prof. Akhil Reed Amar, discussed how originalists assess history in constitutional interpretation: “History, for Bobbitt and for originalists, is history connected to the adoption of the original Constitution or its textual amendments. So it's not everything that ever happened. It's not Greece and Rome. And that would be Roe versus Wade, for example, and that's not originalist. It’s history connected, to repeat, to the adoption and amendme
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At the 2025 National Lawyers Convention, Yale Law School Prof. Akhil Reed Amar, discussed how originalists assess history in constitutional interpretation: “History, for Bobbitt and for originalists, is history connected to the adoption of the original Constitution or its textual amendments. So it's not everything that ever happened. It's not Greece and Rome. And that would be Roe versus Wade, for example, and that's not originalist. It’s history connected, to repeat, to the adoption and amendme
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Akhil Reed Amar on the U.S. Constitution and His Podcast
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Akhil Reed Amar explains Frederick Douglass’s gradual movement from #abolition to anti-slavery and his view on the U.S. Constitution. #USHistory | National Constitution Center
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Akhil Reed Amar explains Frederick Douglass’s gradual movement from #abolition to anti-slavery and his view on the U.S. Constitution. #USHistory | National Constitution Center
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Akhil Reed Amar — Born Equal: Remaking America’s Constitution, 1840–1920 - Roosevelt House Public Policy Institute at Hunter College
Akhil Reed Amar — Born Equal: Remaking America’s Constitution, 1840–1920 - Roosevelt House Public Policy Institute at Hunter College
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Akhil Reed Amar speaks on #AmericasTownHall regarding how abolition and the full ending of slavery was a uniquely American idea #AmericanHistory #USConstitution #abolition #USHistory | National Constitution Center
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Akhil Reed Amar speaks on #AmericasTownHall regarding how abolition and the full ending of slavery was a uniquely American idea #AmericanHistory #USConstitution #abolition #USHistory | National Constitution Center
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AKHIL REED AMAR - "The Words That Made US: America's Constitutional Conversation, 1760 -1840"
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AKHIL REED AMAR - "The Words That Made US: America's Constitutional Conversation, 1760 -1840"
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American Constitution scholar addresses BYU about Utah's constitutional narrative
American Constitution scholar addresses BYU about Utah's constitutional narrative
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Constitutional Conversation with U.S. Constitutional Scholar Akhil Reed Amar
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Yale Law Professor Akhil Reed Amar argues Martin Luther King Jr. is the greatest constitutional originalist. Do you agree? Hear his full argument this Saturday at 3pm ET on C-SPAN2. https://www.c-span.org/event/america-250/the-story-of-the-us-constitution/434136 | American History TV
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Akhil Reed Amar — Born Equal: Remaking America’s Constitution, 1840–1920
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Born Equal: Remaking America's Constitution, 1840-1920 with Akhil Reed Amar
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Booknotes+ Podcast: Constitutional Scholar Akhil Reed Amar on America’s Equality Story
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James Madison Lecture: Was James Madison Truly Father of the Constitution? — Akhil Reed Amar
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Talks with Authors: Born Equal: Remaking America's Constitution, 1840–1920
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Constitutional Law - A Course Introduction
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Akhil Reed Amar on the Bill of Rights
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The significance of the signing of the #constitution being put to a vote
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Akhil Reed Amar on America's Constitution: How it Arose an How to Preserve It
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Akhil Reed Amar, "The Constitution Today: Timeless Lessons for the Issues of Our Era"
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Akhil Reed Amar The Words That Made Us  CSPAN  August 26, 2021 12:15am-1:18am EDT
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Akhil Reed Amar: America’s Biggest Constitutional Questions
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Consider This: Equality and the Constitution with Akhil Reed Amar
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“Equal Protection” Origins and Legacies of the Fourteenth Amendment
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Born Equal: America’s Founding Promise and the Fight for Equality
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The Story of the U.S. Constitution: Past and Present
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Akhil Reed Amar - Filling the Court: From Midnight Judges to Court Packing to Garland, Gorsuch, and Kavanaugh - Roosevelt House Public Policy Institute at Hunter College
6 months ago
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