America at 250: The beginnings of 'We the People'

from Saturday Extra - Separate stories podcast · host Australian Broadcasting Corporation

Opening our series on 250 years since American independence, we feature historian Jill Lepore, an expert in the US Constitution who tells the stories of ordinary people who have struggled to change the country's founding document.

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