Living Constitutionally: Insights From A.J. Jacobs and Jeffrey Rosen Live at the National Constitution Center

A.J. Jacobs, author of The Year of Living Constitutionally: One Man’s Humble Quest to Follow the Constitution’s Original Meaning, in conversation with NCC President and CEO Jeffrey Rosen, author of the new book The Pursuit of Happiness: How Classical Writers on Virtue Inspired the Lives of the Founders and Defined America. Listen to their discussion on what it means to live constitutionally today.

Resources:

A.J. Jacobs, The Year of Living Constitutionally: One Man's Humble Quest to Follow the Constitution’s Original Meaning (2024)


"Colonial America" fashion, Brittanica

Jonathan Gienapp, The Second Creation: Fixing the American Constitution in the Founding Era (2018)

Jud Campbell, “What Did the First Amendment Originally Mean?,” University of Richmond (2018)


Texas v. Johnson (1989)

NCC's We the People podcast, "The Modern History of Originalism," (August 2023)

NCC's We the People podcast, "What the Supreme Court's Opinion in NYSRPA v. Bruen Means for the Second Amendment," (August 2022)

"How a college term paper led to a constitutional amendment," Constitution Daily blog, (May 7, 2024)

NCC's Constitution Drafting Project


Walter Isaacson, Benjamin Franklin: A Life, (2004)


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