Does the Constitution have what it takes to keep up with modern America? Join Peter Sagal as he hits the road to find out.
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Watch CONSTITUTION USA with Peter Sagal
Explore the Constitution’s most striking feature: its resilient brand of federalism.
About the Film
Does the Constitution have what it takes to keep up with modern America? Join Peter Sagal, host of NPR’s Wait Wait… Don’t Tell Me! as he hits the road to find out. Traveling across the country by motorcycle, Sagal is in search of where the U.S. Constitution lives, how it works and how it doesn’t… how it unites us as a nation and how it has nearly torn us apart.
CONSTITUTION USA is a production of tpt National Productions in association with Insignia Films. It premiered on PBS in May 2013.
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