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Episode 1: Good Night . . . and Good Luck

2

The Constitution and 2020 - WETS Fundraiser

3

A Tale of Two Papers

4

The Deep State

5

Presidential Smackdown! Andrew Jackson v. Donald Trump

6

Exonerated! Part Two

7

Exonerated! Part One

8

The First Impeachment

9

Okay, Brexit. What Now?

10

Does Tort Reform Violate your Right to a Jury Trial?

11

Defying the President

12

Fault Lines in the Constitution

13

Why Impeach Donald Trump?

14

The Ethically-Constrained President

15

Impeachment in Context

16

Virginia in the Vanguard

17

Fighting White Supremacy

18

Tariff Man!

19

ERA in VA: The Battle Continues

20

Democracy and Truth

21

Sacred Liberty

22

Jawing with Jemmy and Bantering With Bryan

23

Constitutional Migration

24

Brexit Update, 2019, Part Two

25

Brexit Update, 2019, Part One

26

The Overseer's Cabin

27

Vote for Us

28

The Transgender Ban

29

Abortion Update, 2019

30

How to Save the Supreme Court

31

The Clinton 12

32

Obstruction of Justice and the Omnipresnt OLC

33

Seven Steps toward Revitalizing American Democracy

34

The Trials of Nina McCall

35

Closin' Down Colleges

36

Crushin' on Jemmy

37

Congressional Oversight

38

National Emergency? What National Emergency?

39

The Schoolhouse Gate

40

Second Amendment Update, 2019

41

Satan Update, 2019

42

Deforming Torts and Conserving Nature

43

Marijuana Update, 2019

44

Teaching -- and Rejecting -- Hard History

45

Resurrecting Montpelier

46

Say What?

47

People Like Us

48

ERA . . . in VA?

49

Why Montpelier?

50

For Us? By Us?

51

The Descendants of Slavery

52

The Tango War

53

Lincoln's Golden Apple

54

Double Jeopardy

55

Aiding the Poor

56

Justice Delayed, but Not Denied

57

Madison's Notes

58

Lies My Teacher Told Me

59

A Duty to Warn?

60

Immigration Update, 2018, Part II

61

The Bill of Rights: A User's Guide

62

Immigration Update, 2018, Part I

63

Fifty-One Imperfect Solutions

64

All the President's Tweets

65

Barbara Johns Day

66

Montpelier, Constitutional History, and . . . LIDAR!

67

The British (Students) are Coming!

68

Fourth Amendment Update -- 2018

69

Brexit Update, 2018

70

Immigration Reform and that Pesky 14th Amendment

71

Madison's Stuff

72

The Cult of the Constitution

73

The Mere Distinction of Colour

74

A Very Constitutional Park

75

Lincoln and the Immigrant

76

The Three Lives of James Madison

77

Net Neutrality and Free Speech

78

Do you Have the Constitutional Right . . . to Kill Yourself?

79

Trumping the Emoluments Clauses

80

Human Nature, James Madison, and Constitutional Design

81

Me Too and the Process Due

82

A Politician Thinking

83

Kelo Update

84

All the President's Nukes

85

Call me Doc

86

What, Precisely, is Puerto Rico?

87

Charlottesville, Nazis, and Free Speech

88

The Second Amendment after Las Vegas

89

Just Who are these Immigrants, Anyway?

90

Reconstructing Tennessee

91

Constitution Day, 2017!

92

A Conversation with Kat

93

Impeached!

94

The Constitution at War

95

Why Did Lincoln Save the Union?

96

Can You Sue the President?

97

The Color of Law

98

The Death of Caesar

99

Brexit Revisited

100

Densho

101

Lithuania!

102

A Fulbright Scholar at Vilnius University.

103

Robocop . . . is Almost Here

104

Early Abolitionists

105

Andrew Jackson, Part II

106

Andrew Jackson, Part I

107

Sovereignty, Treaties and Indigenous Peoples

108

The Dancing Deputy

109

Jane Crow

110

Barron, Baltimore and the Bill of Rights, Part II

111

Barron, Baltimore and the Bill of Rights, Part I

112

Montpelier Summit! Congress, the Courts, and the Separation of Powers

113

Is Throwing Away the Key Really Such a Good Idea?

114

Academic Freedom and Free Speech

115

Gerrymandering, Authoritarianism and The Despot's Accomplice

116

What do we do if the President Dies . . . or Goes Nuts?

117

Lincoln the Lawyer

118

The Original Black Elite

119

Spreading Like a Weed

120

Patrick Henry of Virginia . . . and Kentucky

121

Goin' Canadian?

122

Up in Smoke

123

All the President's Men . . . and Women

124

Electoral Reform

125

Winter Wheat

126

Abe Lincoln's Constitution

127

A Visit to the Jefferson Davis State Historic Site

128

The Most Dred-ful Chief Justice

129

What it Means to be an American, Part II

130

What it Means to be an American - Part I

131

The Framers' Coup

132

Voting, Voters and Political Knowledge

133

The Empty Chair

134

Slavery and the Declaration

135

ISIS, the Secretary, and Genocide

136

Mr. Lincoln's University

137

The First Amendment and the Donald

138

Constitutional Tunes

139

Brexit! OMG! Part II

140

Brexit! OMG! Part I

141

Confederados!

142

Baseball: The Most Constitutional Sport

143

The Second Mrs. Adams

144

A Trip to the Supreme Court

145

How Free is Free Speech on Campus?

146

The Slave Trail of Tears

147

Sisters-in-Law

148

Engines of Liberty

149

In God We Trust?

150

Brexit, Part II

151

Brexit, Part I

152

The Right Wrong Man

153

God, Gays and Governor McCrory

154

Unruly Americans

155

After Scalia

156

Born in the USA?

157

Second Amendment Update, 2016

158

Money Talks

159

Ham the Man!

160

Executive Orders, Immigration and the Donald's Muslim Ban

161

A Visit to the Taft National Historic Site

162

The Money Makers

163

Allegiance

164

The Birth of a Nation

165

Undue Burdens?

166

Dirty Words and Filthy Pictures

167

Two Stockin' Stuffin' Books: The Wilson Deception and Black Earth

168

American Concentration Camp

169

Escape from Boko Haram

170

Mergers and Turtles: UT Mashup, 2015, Part II

171

Bridge of Spies

172

BJ!

173

A Conversation with the Quiz Prez

174

The Words We Live By

175

China Goes Boom, but It's Raining Money

176

Good, Evil, and A Game of Thrones

177

Lafayette Reconsidered

178

RFRA Redux

179

Barbara Kingsolver and the Confederate Battle Flag

180

Nat Turner's Rebellion

181

A Very British Constitutional Update

182

DeclarationProject.org

183

Women's Suffrage v. the Tennessee Bar

184

Swastika Nation!

185

Checking out Constitutional Claims - with PolitiFact!

186

Magna Carta, Part II

187

Magna Carta, Part I

188

Building Democracy in Iran

189

Becoming Madison

190

Thomas Jefferson's Vision of Religious Freedom

191

Voting Rights

192

Solitary Confinement

193

RRRRRRRRR-RFRA's!

194

Gateway to Freedom

195

Konstitutional Kidz

196

A Visit to John Marshall House, Part II

197

A Visit to John Marshall House, Part I

198

Confederates, Nazis and Government Speech

199

The State that Said No

200

American Epic

201

Bacon's Castle, Part II

202

Bacon's Castle, Part I

203

Ralph Stewart v. Moses

204

A Conservative's Case Against Tort Reform

205

The Rule of the Clan

206

Madison's Gift

207

The Green Book

208

William Wells Brown

209

Truly Threatening Facebook

210

The (Book Ban) Battle of Watauga - Presidential Update

211

Satan Update

212

Democracy Cafe

213

Thanksgiving: A Surprisingly Constitutional Holiday

214

Two Battles in World War II

215

Fuzzy Con Law

216

Nature's God

217

Are Corporations People, My Friend?

218

Yes or No on Amendment 2?

219

What's so Bad about Citizens United?

220

Disaffirmative Action

221

Marijuana Update, 2014 Edition

222

The Mind of a Madison Scholar

223

The Drafting of the Irish Constitution

224

Benjamin Franklin: the Last American Englishman

225

A Visit to Chartwell

226

The British Constitution

227

Appomattox Court House

228

Judicial Retention Revisited

229

The Chief Justice

230

Cyberespionage!

231

The Trial Judge - and a Visit to the Grove Park Inn

232

The Good News Club

233

Reagan Revisited

234

Dirty Money

235

The Federal Judge

236

The Lincoln Myth and the Second Amendment

237

Mr. Jackson Goes to Russia

238

The Devil Went Down to Oklahoma, Part II

239

The Devil went down to Oklahoma, Part I

240

Justice for Justice Diaz

241

Jemmy and Jeffy's Big Adventure

242

The (Book) Battle of Watauga

243

From Romania, with Love

244

Colonial Williamsburg, Part III: Madison v. Henry in a Ratification Smackdown!

245

Colonial Williamsburg, Part II: More than Wigs and Muskets

246

Colonial Williamsburg, Part I

247

Monumental Mistakes

248

Access to Justice

249

Patrick Henry and Red Hill, Part III

250

Patrick Henry and Red Hill, Part II

251

Patrick Henry and Red Hill, Part I

252

T. Jeffy's Man Cave

253

Blueberry Soup

254

The Rise of the Nones

255

The University Counsel

256

The Nazi and the Aristocrat

257

The Mysterious Congressman Bingham

258

Revenge Porn

259

The Men Who United the States, Part II

260

The Men Who United the States

261

Roundup 2013

262

The Harlem Shake!

263

We Love Boobies! And the Third Amendment, too!

264

The First Amendment and the 13-Year-Old Girl

265

A Hundred-Year-Old Beard

266

Tule Lake

267

It Ain't Just Playin' Hooky

268

The City Tavern!

269

Ed Snowden's Big Adventure

270

Dolley Before She was a Madison

271

Separation of Powers

272

Ratification, Part 2

273

The Ratification of the Constitution

274

Curmudgeons on the Court?

275

Who Made You the Boss?

276

George Mason, Forgotten Founder

277

Naked Photos and Friendly Hands

278

Constitution USA: Turning the Tables on Peter Sagal

279

Mrs. Keckley's Dresses

280

The Crash at Charley River

281

The Constitution and the Kill List

282

Madison's Challenge

283

The Monster of Monticello, Part II

284

The Monster of Monticello

285

The United States Attorney

286

Frederick Douglas, Part II

287

Frederick Douglass, Part I

288

Recreational Marijuana

289

Constitution Cafe

290

Roe v. Wade at 40

291

Borking Bork

292

Debt, Default and the Trillion-Dollar Coin

293

Lincoln: Fact or Fiction?

294

Facebook, Free Speech and Public Schools, Part II

295

Facebook, Free Speech and Public Schools, Part I

296

Contraceptives, Health Care and God

297

Fred Korematsu, All-American, Part II

298

Fred Korematsu, All-American, Part I

299

Constitution Day 2012

300

Kickin' Up a Ruckus over Gay Rights and Free Speech

301

Watching the Detectives

302

The Queen of America

303

Talking Affirmative Action with the President

304

Kleanin Up with the Klan

305

Founding Scoundrel

306

He Really Might Be Watching You

307

Congressional Case Study: The Fightin' Ninth

308

Endowed by Our Creator

309

Roundup 2012

310

The Equal Rights Amendment

311

Our Imbecilic Constitution

312

The Electoral College

313

The Big Think: Participatory Democracy and Political Ethics

314

The Big Switcheroo?

315

The Mystery of Madeira Wine

316

Modern Warfare: Drones

317

Modern Warfare: Cyberwar!

318

A Squirrel's Leap from Heaven

319

Aaron Burr's Big Adventure

320

Thou Shalt Not . . . Post These Commandments!

321

The Great Emancipator

322

Produce the Body!

323

What Caused the American Civil War?

324

What's Wrong with (Public) School Prayer?

325

The Yancey County News - Defenders of the First Amendment

326

The Stolen Valor Act

327

Roscoe Filburn Had a Farm

328

Eugenics in America

329

Is the Fed Constitutional?

330

Medical Marijuana

331

Health Care Forum

332

A Partnership with James Madison's Montpelier, the Home of the Constitution

333

WWKJ? Would We Kill Jesus?

334

The Odd Clauses of the Constitution

335

The Plots Against the President

336

A Visit to Montpelier

337

A Return to Montpelier

338

Pardon Me! Please!

339

A Slave in the White House

340

The Strange Case of Roger Keith Coleman

341

Philadelphia Stories, Part III - The National Constitution Center

342

Health Care Reform

343

Textbooks and Witchcraft and God - Oh, My!

344

A Tribute to Norman Corwin and the Bill of Rights

345

The Impeachment of Andrew Johnson

346

The National Archives, Part 2

347

The National Archives, Part I

348

Supreme Court Roundup

349

Military Funerals and Hate Speech

350

Prohibition Forum

351

Was it Constitutional to Kill Osama bin Laden?

352

Banned Book Week

353

Prohibition, Part II: The Rise and Fall of Al Capone

354

Prohibition, Part I

355

Who was Jim Crow?

356

Philadelphia Stories, Part II

357

Is the Pledge of Allegiance unconstitutional?

358

Philadelphia Stories, Part I

359

Same Sex Marriage

360

Should Women Vote? Part II

361

Should Women Vote?

362

We the People National Finals

363

Evolution v. Intelligent Design

364

Strict Constructionism

365

Who Wrote the Constitution?

366

Judicial Activism

367

Nullification

368

The Kelo Eminent Domain Case

369

Virginia We the People State Finals

370

The New York City Mosque Controversy

371

George Washington

372

Constitutionality of Secession

373

The Lost State of Franklin