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So to Speak podcast: First Amendment history with Yale Professor Akhil Amar
September 25 was First Amendment Day in America — 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’s episode of So to Speak: The Free Speech Podcast, we discuss the origin story and history of America’s 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 “The Words That Made Us: America’s Constitutional Conversation, 1760-1840” and the host of the podcast “.”
Show notes:
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- “” by Akhil Reed Amar
- “” by Akhil Reed Amar
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