On November 7, 2023, historians Carol Berkin, author of A Sovereign People: The Crises of the 1790s and the Birth of American Nationalism, and H.W. Brands, author of Founding Partisans: Hamilton, Jefferson, Madison, Adams, and the Brawling Birth of American Politics, joined Jeffrey Rosen for a conversation on political partisanship and nationalism in early America, and how, despite the founders’ fear of factionalism, deep partisan divisions emerged almost immediately after the Revolution. They discuss the election of 1800, the first hotly contested partisan election in American history, and trace the history of American partisanship to the present day.
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Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg: A Constitutional Icon
Founding Stories of America’s Founding Documents
Parties, Platforms, Conventions, and the Constitution
19th Amendment: Origins, History, and Legacy
The Constitutional Bounds of Executive Action
Live at the NCC: The 19th Amendment: The Untold Story
American Elections During Crisis
Portland, Protests and Presidential Power
The Future of Church and State at SCOTUS
State Attorneys General Keith Ellison and Dave Yost
Has the Roberts Court Arrived?
“What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?”
The Supreme Court’s DACA Decision
LGBTQ Employees’ Rights at the Supreme Court
Live at the NCC: Policing, Protests, and the Constitution Part 2
Live at the NCC: Policing, Protests, and the Constitution Part 1
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Voting, Coronavirus, and the Constitution
“Faithless Electors” Supreme Court Argument Recap
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