Toward Reconstitution

What happens when the right to be heard replaces the obligation to respond? Toward Reconstitution is a 13-episode podcast exploring the gap between what we ask of our government and what power can be made to do. Hosted by independent scholar Melissa Cosgrove, the series examines how modern institutions preserve the appearance of public participation while systematically decoupling accountability. Through contemporary cases, legal analysis, and political history, Toward Reconstitution asks what it would take to build a constitutional order bound by relational integrity—where rights place duties on those with power and harm creates an obligation to repair.