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So to Speak podcast: First Amendment history with Yale Professor Akhil Amar
September 25 was First Amendment Day in America 鈥 the anniversary of the date in 1789 when Congress approved 12 amendments to our Constitution, including what we today call the Bill of Rights.
On today鈥檚 episode of So to Speak: The Free Speech Podcast, we discuss the origin story and history of America鈥檚 First Amendment and its five freedoms.
To do so, we are joined by Sterling Professor of Law and Political Science at Yale University . Amar is the author of 鈥淭he Words That Made Us: America鈥檚 Constitutional Conversation, 1760-1840鈥 and the host of the podcast 鈥.鈥
Show notes:
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- 鈥溾 by Akhil Reed Amar
- 鈥溾 by Akhil Reed Amar
- 鈥溾 by Akhil Reed Amar
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