32 min

We're following the Law with AJ Jacobs and The Year of Living Constitutionally Peculiar Book Club Podcast

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A.J. Jacobs learned the hard way that donning a tricorne hat and
marching around Manhattan with a 1700s musket will earn you a lot of
strange looks. In the wake of several controversial rulings by the
Supreme Court and the on-going debate about how the Constitution should
be interpreted, Jacobs set out to understand what it means to live by
the Constitution.

In The Year of Living Constitutionally,
A.J. Jacobs tries to get inside the minds of the Founding Fathers by
living as closely as possible to the original meaning of the
Constitution. He asserts his right to free speech by writing his
opinions on parchment with a quill and handing them out to strangers in
Times Square. He consents to quartering a soldier, as is his Third
Amendment right. He turns his home into a traditional 1790s household by
lighting candles instead of using electricity, boiling mutton,
and—because women were not allowed to sign contracts— feebly attempting
to take over his wife’s day job, which involves a lot of contract
negotiations.

A.J. Jacobs learned the hard way that donning a tricorne hat and
marching around Manhattan with a 1700s musket will earn you a lot of
strange looks. In the wake of several controversial rulings by the
Supreme Court and the on-going debate about how the Constitution should
be interpreted, Jacobs set out to understand what it means to live by
the Constitution.

In The Year of Living Constitutionally,
A.J. Jacobs tries to get inside the minds of the Founding Fathers by
living as closely as possible to the original meaning of the
Constitution. He asserts his right to free speech by writing his
opinions on parchment with a quill and handing them out to strangers in
Times Square. He consents to quartering a soldier, as is his Third
Amendment right. He turns his home into a traditional 1790s household by
lighting candles instead of using electricity, boiling mutton,
and—because women were not allowed to sign contracts— feebly attempting
to take over his wife’s day job, which involves a lot of contract
negotiations.

32 min